Re: [opensuse] Updating OpenSuse 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Thursday 29 November 2007 20:32:24 Philippe Landau ste napísal: > System:Configuration:Install Software calls a title-less YaST2 module > where updating the system is hidden under: > Package:All Packages:Update > > I configured it to use the following repositories: > Filter:Repositories: > http

[opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

2007-11-30 Thread walt
Hi all, Further to my previous email, I now have an error message: Comreset failed (errorno 960 or 976) This is what takes ages, like 2 - 3 minutes, before the system starts loading. Can anybody tell me what it means and what to do about it. Many thanks,Walter -

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Question

2007-11-30 Thread Will Stephenson
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Ben Kevan said: > For me the "Lock / Logout" Plasmoid is semi broken and ones like the "New > Device Notified" can't be dragged because it recognizes the click to do > another function. Will thing like that be fixed before the final or is that > more maintenence / clea

Re: [opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread Bryen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 20:12 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:07:05PM -0600, Bryen wrote: > > I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. > > > > Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However > > when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requir

Re: [opensuse] Display Power Management Ceased Functioning (SuSE Linux 10.0 / KDE)

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Schneider
Randall R Schulz pecked at their keyboard and wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007 11:50, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: >> Am Freitag, 30. November 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz: >>> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:39, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:00, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: >>>

[opensuse] Network Bridge! Which Firewall Zone?

2007-11-30 Thread Johannes Nohl
Dear list, I installed VirtualBox. Therefor I set up a Network Bridge. Now I have: eth0 = physic. card, connected to the router IP 0.0.0.0 vbox0 = interface used by Virtualbox br0 = Bridge DHCP With Firewall turned off, networking is no problem. VBox Guest and br0 receive their IP via DHCP from

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Frank Fiene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 12:40]: > No, there is no option in BIOS to "enable" complete 4GB. It is a > Lenovo Thinkpad Z61p and with PAE-enabled (standard-SUSE) 32bit kernel > and 64bit kernel it doesn't recognize my memory! Running >

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I will use bold type for program reponse. Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text formatting got lost. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Dave Howorth wrote: Michel Rasquin wrote: Dear all, I am a new OpenSuSE user and quite convinced by this distribution. However, I still have a problem. I have configured a gigabit network, using nfs and everything works fine except for all the Fortran compilers I have tried so far (

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 30 November 2007 16:34, Philippe Landau wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I will use bold type for program reponse. > > > > Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text > > formatting got los

[opensuse] 10.2 - printing sorta works

2007-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
My printer is a LaserJet 4M with PS on ethernet. Printing a test page with YaST, or web pages with FF, SM & Konq all work, but no matter what app I use to try to print a PDF, the online and form feed lights do their thing, but after a while stop without ever printing anything. Anyone know what to l

Re: [opensuse] Blue screen whenever trying to view video

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Atcheson
On Thursday 29 November 2007 23:34:39 Joe Sloan wrote: > Refresh my memory please: in your xorg.conf file, does it say you're > using the "i810" or the "intel" driver? Joe, the .conf file has this: BoardName"855 GM" BusID"0:2:0" Driver "intel" Identifier "Device[0]" Sc

[opensuse] Info on 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Arnold
I am having SLED issues and may install 10.3. I would like to know a couple things: 1)what versions of gnome and kde does 10.3 use? 2)is joining a domain as easy as in SLED? Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Reply-to-List

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/01/2007 04:26 AM, Ken Schneider wrote: > For anyone interested in getting Reply-to-List working in the latest > version of Thunderbird for openSUSE 10.3 there is an updated xpi here: > > http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension > > It just plain works, finally. >

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 30 November 2007 16:34, Philippe Landau wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I will use bold type for program reponse. > > > > Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your > > text formatting got lo

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/11/30 21:26 (GMT) Dave Howorth apparently typed: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:21 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: >> The 10.3 system installs the boot loader to the partition containing /boot, >> leaving a standard MBR that does nothing except hand over to the partition >> marked "bootable"

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I will use bold type for program reponse. > Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text > formatting got lost. Surprisingly, no :-) I just started seeing last month that Thunderbi

Re: [opensuse] Volume Labels - RESOLVED

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Donald D Henson wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 14:27 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the volume name. As root, I used the command: tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-01 at 02:17 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Rudeness is hardly called for. Carlos is a respected member of this forum. If that how it is understood then i apologize. I meant and signalled it as a joke.

[opensuse] Firefox still running

2007-11-30 Thread Bob S
Hello SuSE people, Running 10.3 64 bit after a new install. Saved the /home directory for myself and two users. Moved all of the pertinent stuff (.kde & .mozilla) from a 10.2 install into the repective new /home directories on 10.3. Everything works fine for myself and one of the users. For

Re: [opensuse] I should have known!

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-30 at 21:06 -0500, Chris Arnold wrote: How can i find the packages that were updated then back date to those packages that are on the disc? I alt-cntrl-f5 to get the CL and tried to uninstall gconf2 but get a slew of dependency

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-30 at 18:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Bolt wrote: My guess is that you have separate partitions, and /var is on one of those partitions. If so, you've probably fallen foul of bug #330705, to which a workaround is

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-30 at 17:07 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: I will use bold type for program reponse. Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text formatting got lost. Surprisingly, no :-) I just started seeing la

[opensuse] I should have known!

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Arnold
Not to update my system when the gnome:stble "installation sources" was "on"! Using SLED SP1 and performed an online update. Some of the updates were from the gnome:stable repo (like gconf2). Now my system will not login using gdm. Root will not even login. I have the system joined to a 2003 dom

Re: [opensuse] Firefox still running

2007-11-30 Thread todd
> Everything works fine for myself and one of the users. For the other user > Firefox cannot be started and comes up with a message the Firefox is > already > running and it must be closed first. Firefox is installed globally. Firefox uses lockfiles to allow only one firefox process to occur at a

Re: [opensuse] Firefox still running

2007-11-30 Thread Bryen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:14 -0500, Bob S wrote: > Hello SuSE people, > > Running 10.3 64 bit after a new install. Saved the /home directory for > myself and two users. Moved all of the pertinent stuff (.kde & .mozilla) from > a 10.2 install into the repective new /home directories on 10.3. >

Re: [opensuse] Firefox still running

2007-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Bob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 23:06]: > I ran system guard and there is no sign of Firefox (mozilla) running. I've > tried everything I can think of including wiping that user's /home directory > and re-importing it. Can't find anything. A

Re: [opensuse] I should have known!

2007-11-30 Thread Bryen
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 05:00 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:day} \ > %{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}\t%15{VERSION}-%-7{RELEASE} \ > %25{PACKAGER}\n" | sort | less -S That's very cool. What does the first column represent? I'm assuming it i

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
Randall R Schulz wrote: > Rudeness is hardly called for. Carlos is a respected member of this > forum. If that how it is understood then i apologize. I meant and signalled it as a joke. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 - printing sorta works

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/01/2007 10:24 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > My printer is a LaserJet 4M with PS on ethernet. Printing a test page with > YaST, or web pages with FF, SM & Konq all work, but no matter what app I use > to try to print a PDF, the online and form feed lights do their thing, but > after a while stop wi

Re: [opensuse] Firefox still running

2007-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Bryen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 23:38]: >From a command line as root run the following command: > ps aux | grep firefox > > then look for the PID number which is the second column > > type this command: > kill (PID number) er, systemguard is

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 - printing sorta works

2007-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/11/30 18:55 (GMT-0800) Joseph Loo apparently typed: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:24 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> My printer is a LaserJet 4M with PS on ethernet. Printing a test page with >> YaST, or web pages with FF, SM & Konq all work, but no matter what app I use >> to try to print a PD

Re: [opensuse] I should have known!

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Schneider
Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > The Friday 2007-11-30 at 21:06 -0500, Chris Arnold wrote: > >> How can i find the packages that were updated then back date to those >> packages that are on the disc? I alt-cntrl-f5 to get the CL and tried >> to uninstall gconf2 but get a slew of

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread David Bolt
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, wrote:- >*mount point : /boot >device : /dev/hda4 >file system (empty for autodetection) >* >if I leave the file system box empty it returns to the prior box that >states the partition could not be mounted, etc. > The various spelling; i.e. EXT3, ext3, etc. are examples of

Re: [opensuse] Display Power Management Ceased Functioning (SuSE Linux 10.0 / KDE)

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Schneider
Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007 12:20, Ken Schneider wrote: >> Randall R Schulz pecked at their keyboard and wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> >>> Thanks for making me think of that. >>> Jan >>> Randall Schulz >> Who says you can't teach an old dog new tric

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

2007-11-30 Thread Ed McCanless
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Friday 2007-11-30 at 08:37 -, walt wrote: > > > I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a > clean, fresh > > install with a freshly partitioned harddisk. Suse displays the boot > options > > screen and then switches to the normal splash screen

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:28 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do > > enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught > > process if anything goes wrong :( > > > > I blew a 10.3 DVD, verif

Re: [opensuse] Display Power Management Ceased Functioning (SuSE Linux 10.0 / KDE)

2007-11-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 30 November 2007 11:50, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: > Am Freitag, 30. November 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz: > > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:39, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:00, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Hmm. Does a "xset dpms force off"

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
Dave Howorth wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: >> If it's that you could try installing Lilo instead of Grub. > > Ha-ha, very droll! Does anybody still use lilo? Certainly I wouldn't > touch it again with a ten foot pole. You may laugh, but i lost 10 hours last month because Grub numbers the drives

Re: [opensuse] iPhone + openSUSE?

2007-11-30 Thread Sloan
Thomas R. Jones wrote: > Just today, I succeeded in producing a custom ringtone for my iPhone > utilizing nothing but open source binaries. No need for commercial > applications! > > Right now, I am using "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band as my > ringtone. Sweet!!! I will take note of the pro

Re: [opensuse] Display Power Management Ceased Functioning (SuSE Linux 10.0 / KDE)

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 30 November 2007 12:20, Ken Schneider wrote: Randall R Schulz pecked at their keyboard and wrote: ... Thanks for making me think of that. Jan Randall Schulz Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Who you callin' an old dog? I'm more like an ol

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
Michel Rasquin wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a new OpenSuSE user and quite convinced by this distribution. > However, I still have a problem. > > I have configured a gigabit network, using nfs and everything works > fine except for all the Fortran compilers I have tried so far (Intel, >

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Anders Johansson
On Friday 30 November 2007 12:32:21 Dave Howorth wrote: > I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do > enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught > process if anything goes wrong :( > > I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It al

[opensuse] Re: OpenSuSE 10.2 missing vncconfig?

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Worley
It looks like the culprit is TightVNC: they don't include vncconfig in their package either (I know RHEL uses TightVNC and has vncconfig too... so RH figured it out). I built just vncconfig from the RealVNC package, and run that with TightVNC (server) in OpenSuSE, and cut-and-paste now works w/ VN

Re: [opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread Bryen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:18 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Bryen wrote: > > I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. > > > > Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However > > when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requirement > > MozillaFirefox == 2.0.0.9-1.1 for >

[opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread Bryen
I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requirement MozillaFirefox == 2.0.0.9-1.1 for MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-2.0.0.9-1.1.i586. I'm given the option to delete MozillaFirefox-

[opensuse] Re: nviddia 3D support potential bug

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Lewis
> Before I submit this as a bug I thought I would run it by those of you > who know something about > 3D and Nvidia card configuaration. > > I have a PCI-E GeFoce 6500 which reports as having 512MB of RAM. > VBIOS 05.44.02.49.00 > > I have installed two RPMS from NVIDIA that are Driver Version > 10

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread David C. Rankin
Dave Howorth wrote: > I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do > enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught > process if anything goes wrong :( > > I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went > happily and eventually sta

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Howorth wrote: > Michel Rasquin wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am a new OpenSuSE user and quite convinced by this distribution. >> However, I still have a problem. >> >> I have configured a gigabit network, using nfs and everything works >> fine except for all the Fortran compilers I ha

Re: [opensuse] Volume Mount Sequence - RESOLVED

2007-11-30 Thread Donald D Henson
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 11/30/2007 05:35 AM, Donald D Henson wrote: >> Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >> >>> On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote: >>> Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every t

Re: [opensuse] Python freeze

2007-11-30 Thread Michal Vyskocil
On Thursday 29 November 2007 15:32:23 Robert W Best wrote: > Hello Michal, >I downloaded cx-freeze rpm but can't install it. > YaST says it can't find cx-freeze. > cx-freeze requires python-devel and rpmlib which are not included with > SuSE 10.3. > python-devel is included with SuSE 10.2 - can

Re: [opensuse] Problem with cryptotab and Opensuse 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-11-26 at 00:10 +0100, Jan Tiggy wrote: Carlos E. R. schrieb: [...] Ah, I see you did something similar later. You also need twofish there. Thx Carlos I've sorted it out with your help. We have been talking about encrypted f

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >> Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Quoting Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there is any possible way to find out t

Re: [opensuse] Umlaute and accents stopped working

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: I have english as primary keyboard layout and german and english as additional ones. Everything worked just fine until 2 days ago. I don't know what I did, but since then switching to german layout turns my umlaut keys into dead keys and in portuguese I don't have accents

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Frank Fiene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 02:42]: > [...] > > But only 3GB of RAM are used. > > erwin:/home/ffiene # free > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 309608811000441996044

Re: [opensuse] Giving write access to disks mounted in system:/media

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 06:46]: >> kdesu kate /etc/fstab was a good hint, thanks: >> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD501LJS0MUJ1DP612895-part5 /disk12 >> ext3 defaults 1 2 >> so i can now do su, root password, then: >>

Re: [opensuse] IBM ThinkPad T60p + ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 - how to get correctly working X?

2007-11-30 Thread AV
On Nov 29, 2007 3:35 PM, Zoltan Levardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried this? http://en.opensuse.org/ATI#openSUSE_10.3 > Thank you. That I know. But it is not a way that I have to use... It is for a simple, supported hardware. My ATI is not simple... still waiting for suggestions... A

Re: [opensuse] Giving write access to disks mounted in system:/media

2007-11-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 06:46]: > kdesu kate /etc/fstab was a good hint, thanks: > /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD501LJS0MUJ1DP612895-part5 /disk12 > ext3 defaults 1 2 > so i can now do su, root p

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available memory via command line. Is

Re: [opensuse] Second Try: Redesign of YaST Control Center

2007-11-30 Thread Russell Jones
Aaron Kulkis wrote: ianseeks wrote: I would prefer that items not installed have greyed-out icons rather than just removing them. That would let any knowledgeable administrator know that the item is available and can be installed. I was thinking of a set up for new users. Greyed out icons wo

Re: [opensuse] Blue screen whenever trying to view video

2007-11-30 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thursday 29 November 2007 21:34, Joe Sloan wrote: > Richard Atcheson wrote: > > I have tried all the suggested solutions and still no joy. I reloaded > > the codecs suggested and no luck. I tried to view a small mpeg file with > > both xine and mplayer and was able to see it but trying to view

RE: [opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 30 13:11:39 2007 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:11:36 +0100 (CET) From: Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence. El 20

Re: [opensuse] Any "Cut and Paste" HOWTO's?

2007-11-30 Thread Will Stephenson
On Friday 30 November 2007, Lubos Lunak said: > If you can reproduce without Klipper, replace one of the apps with some > other using a different toolkit to find out which of them is causing the > problem (i.e. if the problem is with OOo vs Konsole, try with OOo vs GEdit, > GEdit vs Konsole, you c

Re: [opensuse] Giving write access to disks mounted in system:/media

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
G T Smith wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: >> How can i change ownership of the content of for example >> system:/media/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD501LJS0MUJ1DP612895-part5 > Are talking about mounted optical media or something else? This is a SATA Samsung HardDisk 500GB (cheap silent fluid bearing) > Opt

Re: [opensuse] iPhone + openSUSE?

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas R. Jones
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:02 -0600, Thomas R. Jones wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering if anybody here has had the opportunity of syncing a > iPhone on a openSUSE system? Preferably the 10.3 release. > > Got mine today, it recognizes the device as a camera. F-Spot downloads > images. But I h

Re: [opensuse] Giving write access to disks mounted in system:/media

2007-11-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Landau wrote: > How can i change ownership of the content of for example > system:/media/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD501LJS0MUJ1DP612895-part5 > > Kind regards Philippe Are talking about mounted optical media or something else? Optical media is

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

2007-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-30 at 08:37 -, walt wrote: I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a clean, fresh install with a freshly partitioned harddisk. Suse displays the boot options screen and then switches to the normal splas

Re: [opensuse] Display Power Management Ceased Functioning (SuSE Linux 10.0 / KDE)

2007-11-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 30 November 2007 12:20, Ken Schneider wrote: > Randall R Schulz pecked at their keyboard and wrote: > > ... > > > > > > Thanks for making me think of that. > > > >> Jan > > > > Randall Schulz > > Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Who you callin' an old dog? I'm more like a

[opensuse] Reply-to-List

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Schneider
For anyone interested in getting Reply-to-List working in the latest version of Thunderbird for openSUSE 10.3 there is an updated xpi here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension It just plain works, finally. Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

Re: [opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:07:05PM -0600, Bryen wrote: > I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. > > Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However > when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requirement > MozillaFirefox == 2.0.0.9-1.1 for > MozillaFirefox-debuginfo

Re: [opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread James Knott
Bryen wrote: I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requirement MozillaFirefox == 2.0.0.9-1.1 for MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-2.0.0.9-1.1.i586. I'm given the option to delete

[opensuse] nviddia 3D support potential bug

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Lewis
Before I submit this as a bug I thought I would run it by those of you who know something about 3D and Nvidia card configuaration. I have a PCI-E GeFoce 6500 which reports as having 512MB of RAM. VBIOS 05.44.02.49.00 I have installed two RPMS from NVIDIA that are Driver Version 100.14.19 Released

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there is any possible way to find o

[opensuse] [OT] British time

2007-11-30 Thread Doug McGarrett
Perhaps someone in Great Britain will explain to me the usage "half eight" with regard to time. In German, "halb Acht" would mean 7:30. What does it mean in British English? Thanx to you who permit me to ask this OT question. --doug Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at

Re: [opensuse] Any "Cut and Paste" HOWTO's?

2007-11-30 Thread Russell Jones
Chris Worley wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 3:34 AM, Will Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2007 23:34:23 Chris Worley wrote: From my limited testing, killing klipper seems to do the trick... the behavior becomes predictable. Acroread is still an issue, but that's pr

[opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught process if anything goes wrong :( I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went happily and eventually started installing the packages so

Re: [opensuse] Updating OpenSuse 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Philippe Landau
Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: > Dňa Thursday 29 November 2007 20:32:24 Philippe Landau ste napísal: >> System:Configuration:Install Software calls a title-less YaST2 module >> where updating the system is hidden under: >> Package:All Packages:Update I hope there are plans to make this easier to find.

[opensuse] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

2007-11-30 Thread walt
Hi, I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a clean, fresh install with a freshly partitioned harddisk. Suse displays the boot options screen and then switches to the normal splash screen where you should be able to press esc to get to text screen showing you what its doing.

Re: [opensuse] How to create banners in Linux?

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Sloan wrote: Josef Assad wrote: Ronald Wiplinger wrote: Which program I can use to create banners in Linux? My first thought went along "oh, that's a job for figlet". Guess I'm getting old. If it's any consolation I thought figlet too, until I saw his comments about animated gifs or whatever

[opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-11-30 Thread Michel Rasquin
Dear all, I am a new OpenSuSE user and quite convinced by this distribution. However, I still have a problem. I have configured a gigabit network, using nfs and everything works fine except for all the Fortran compilers I have tried so far (Intel, g95, gfortran). There is no proble

Re: [opensuse] Info on 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin Dupuy
On Nov 30, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: I am having SLED issues and may install 10.3. I would like to know a couple things: 1)what versions of gnome and kde does 10.3 use? 2)is joining a domain as easy as in SLED? Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

Re: [opensuse] Volume Labels - RESOLVED

2007-11-30 Thread Donald D Henson
Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 14:27 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: > >> It seemed to be just what I needed but I can't get it to change the >> volume name. As root, I used the command: >> >> tune2fs -L Float /dev/sdc1 >>

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Frank Fiene
On Freitag 30 November 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Frank Fiene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-30-07 02:42]: > > [...] > > > > But only 3GB of RAM are used. > > > > erwin:/home/ffiene # free > > total used free sharedbuffers > > cached > > Mem: 3096088110004

Re: [opensuse] get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-30 Thread Sloan
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> x86info isn't standard. >> /proc filesystem is. >> > > x86info gives more info than /proc. Source is available. less, more, and cat > aren't part of the Linux kernel, so /proc/ may be standard, but almost anyway

Re: [opensuse] Firefox Upgrade Dependency

2007-11-30 Thread James Knott
Bryen wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:18 -0500, James Knott wrote: Bryen wrote: I'm running 2.0.0.8 Firefox currently. Yesterday's updater tells me that 2.0.0.10 is now available. However when I attempt to install it, it says Can't satisfy requirement MozillaFirefox == 2.0.0.9-1.1 for Mozilla

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Philippe Landau wrote: > >> If it's that you could try installing Lilo instead of Grub. > > > > Ha-ha, very droll! Does anybody still use lilo? Certainly I wouldn't > > touch it again with a ten foot pole. > You ma

[opensuse] Reply-to-List feature

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Schneider
I found a newer version of the add-on for Thunderbird for Reply-to-List that actually works. You can find it here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension This is for the latest version of Thunderbird in openSUSE 10.3. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:21 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007 12:32:21 Dave Howorth wrote: > > I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do > > enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught > > process if anything goes wrong

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

2007-11-30 Thread regus_patoff
David Bolt wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, wrote:- > > > > >> *mount point : /boot >> device : /dev/hda4 >> file system (empty for autodetection) >> * >> if I leave the file system box empty it returns to the prior box that >> states the partition could not be mounted, etc. >> The various spell

Re: [opensuse] Blue screen whenever trying to view video

2007-11-30 Thread Joe Sloan
Richard Atcheson wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 23:34:39 Joe Sloan wrote: >> Refresh my memory please: in your xorg.conf file, does it say you're >> using the "i810" or the "intel" driver? > > Joe, the .conf file has this: > BoardName"855 GM" > BusID"0:2:0" > Driver "

[opensuse] possible kernel panic on install attempts

2007-11-30 Thread Clark P. Case
Here's a strange one. Sorry it's so long but I am at my diagnostic end with this I have a system (and 3 other identical ones) that uses a Tyan S2098AGN motherboard, 2.1GHZ Celeron w/512MB ram. I have been running openSuse 10.0 to 10.2 without issues. The board has integrated video but only al

Re: [opensuse] Blue screen whenever trying to view video

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Atcheson
On Friday 30 November 2007 21:19:32 Joe Sloan wrote: > Richard Atcheson wrote: > > On Thursday 29 November 2007 23:34:39 Joe Sloan wrote: > >> Refresh my memory please: in your xorg.conf file, does it say you're > >> using the "i810" or the "intel" driver? > > > > Joe, the .conf file has this: > >

Re: [opensuse] Blue screen whenever trying to view video(SOLVED)

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Atcheson
On Saturday 01 December 2007 00:35:55 Richard Atcheson wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007 21:19:32 Joe Sloan wrote: > > Richard Atcheson wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 November 2007 23:34:39 Joe Sloan wrote: > > >> Refresh my memory please: in your xorg.conf file, does it say you're > > >> using the

Re: [opensuse] How to create banners in Linux?

2007-11-30 Thread Tom Patton
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:58 +0100, Jordi Massaguer i Pla wrote: > You can use GIMP. It is not well documented and took me a while until I > found it. The easy path is: > > 1- Use layers as if each layer was a frame of your animation. > 2- Save it as gif. It will asked you whether to save it as an

[opensuse] linutop

2007-11-30 Thread jdd
I just find this: http://www.linutop.com/blog/photos.html it works with ubuntu (and also Mandriva) I don't know if this small computer, not so cheap (approx 300$, but nearly 400€ in France with Mandriva) is really interesting. Is there an openSUSE version available for it (préinstalled) in

Re: [opensuse] Info on 10.3

2007-11-30 Thread Stephan Hegel
Hi, Kevin Dupuy wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: > >> I am having SLED issues and may install 10.3. I would like to know a >> couple things: >> 1)what versions of gnome and kde does 10.3 use? >> 2)is joining a domain as easy as in SLED? >> > > 1) GNOME 2.20, not sure abo