Re: [opensuse] Thinkpad T60p install

2007-11-04 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Mr Banana wrote: > I've been a fan of SuSE since version 7 but I'm really scratching my head > with 10.3. This is the > worst release for "just not working" on my Thinkpad T60p. I was able to get > 10.2 working OK with a > bit of tweaking but I'm astounded at how broken 10.3 is. I've tried very

Re: [opensuse] Something wrong with opensuse.org's web sites?

2007-09-16 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
lists. I'm not knowledgeable about DNS to know how *that* would work, but it must as, 'fer instance, I notice that doing something like "ping google.com" gets different addresses at different times. jdd wrote: > Bruce A. Mallett wrote: > >> - Why is there a sin

Re: [opensuse] Something wrong with opensuse.org's web sites?

2007-09-16 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I got this yesterday or the day before as well and it is continuing now, in my case through the YAST software update/installer app. This is a general subject that has been bothering me, specifically I don't understand why pkg management under SUSE is so painful. There are some basic things that I

Re: [opensuse] Why I Use SUSE (a.k.a. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Review)

2007-04-24 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Kai Ponte wrote: > SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE > desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my > senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He > agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a > 10.2 live DVD.)

Re: [opensuse] parallels vs VMware...?

2007-04-22 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I was unable to get parallels to install under openSUSE 10.2 whereas the VMWare installs nicely. The new VMWare 6 beta/RC is very nice btw. - Bruce Tom Patton wrote: > Following the Autocad thread, and wondering what you pros think of > parallels. > > I was using it quite successfully

Re: [opensuse] Hibernate on Lid-close - OpenSuSE 10.2

2006-12-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
James Ogley wrote: >>> Anyway, can someone tell me what has happened to the switch in power >>> management configuration which allows automatic hibernation on lid-close >>> events? >>> >> You are not alone .. I've been wondering the same thing! >> > > This is now controlled through th

Re: [opensuse] Hibernate on Lid-close - OpenSuSE 10.2

2006-12-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Jay C Vollmer wrote: > Anyway, can someone tell me what has happened to the switch in power > management configuration which allows automatic hibernation on lid-close > events? You are not alone .. I've been wondering the same thing! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: [opensuse] nxserver (FreeNX) and 10.2

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
On your client, have you got "ForwardX11 yes" ? In other words, if you ssh into the remote box, does "echo $DISPLAY" show what you expect? And can you then bring up an xterm? - Bruce Greg Freemyer wrote: > Resend, gmail had automatically made this html mail. > > On 12/11/06, Greg Freemyer

Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!

2006-11-27 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote: > Hi > > > > I am horrified by the user unfriendliness of the new KDE start menu. I > think I am going insane, searching like a maniac trying to find apps. > What was once a piece of cake is now a nightmare! > > > > How do I remove it and replace it with the old "

Re: [opensuse] Beta 2 won't install .. error creating catalog

2006-11-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Sandy Drobic wrote: > Bruce A. Mallett wrote: >> Sandy Drobic wrote: >>> Bruce A. Mallett wrote: >>>> This is new to me: >>>>Error occurred while creating the catalog >>>>cd :///?devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd >>>>Unknow

Re: [opensuse] Beta 2 won't install .. error creating catalog

2006-11-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Sandy Drobic wrote: > Bruce A. Mallett wrote: >> This is new to me: >>Error occurred while creating the catalog >>cd :///?devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd >>Unknown Error: Unable to copy media directory >>to /var/tmp/TmpDir.75IZ4f/MEDIA >> >>

[opensuse] NetworkManager PPTP support

2006-11-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I notice that the new K/Ubuntu has integrated GUI support for PPTP in the menu .. very nice for those of us that need to connect to the office. Any chance that this might make it into 10.2? - Bruce - To unsubscribe, e-

[opensuse] Beta 2 won't install .. error creating catalog

2006-11-11 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
This is new to me: Error occurred while creating the catalog cd :///?devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd Unknown Error: Unable to copy media directory to /var/tmp/TmpDir.75IZ4f/MEDIA Check media works, but I can't find an MD5SUM on the opensuse.org page to verify (mine began with 81e273..., FWIW

Re: [opensuse] Package management seems highly messed up

2006-05-25 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This problem might disappear after running > > rpm --rebuilddb > > if you're lucky. Thanks .. I deleted everything down to the bare metal, then re-added the DVD and (forget which order) did the --rebuilddb. I am back in business again (for now anyway). > You might want

[opensuse] Package management seems highly messed up

2006-05-23 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager. Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I r

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE @ Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-29 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Christoph Thiel wrote: > We are now looking for ideas, proposals, projects, etc. around openSUSE > and SUSE Linux, that could be worked on in Google Summer of Code. As the > period of application for SoC is already very short, we need to get our > proposals for project online May 1st, 2006, at t

Re: [opensuse] New background submission

2006-04-12 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Love it! :) houghi wrote: > I was thinking about the new background for the Alpha. I believe it is > going to be called a Lizard (again). It that fixed, or could that be > changed? > > I realy liked the fact that each Alpha and Beta had its own background. > Will that be happening again in the f

[opensuse] Package refresh with "yast2 lan"

2005-11-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I'm curious: Is it necessary to do a package refresh when configuring a network device? This creates a bit of a catch-22 when one is not on the network and needs to configure a new wireless card. A lot of time-outs and "Skip refresh" button selections are necessitated (depending on the number

Re: [opensuse] Possible boot ordering problem between ntp and dhcp

2005-11-04 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
would also think that ifplugd would be the default for non-wireless interfaces. - Bruce Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday, November 03, 2005 at 15:51:42, Bruce A. Mallett wrote: > > >> I think I'm seeing an ordering problem in that ntp won't set th

[opensuse] Possible boot ordering problem between ntp and dhcp

2005-11-03 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I think I'm seeing an ordering problem in that ntp won't set the system clock on boot because: 1) Yast stores the time server's name and not its IP address in /etc/ntp.conf 2) My system gets its IP via dhcpd 3) ntp fails to resolve the IP address via DNS for the ntp server named in /etc/ntp.c

Re: [opensuse] How to delete an FTP server?

2005-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:48 -0600, Kirk Coombs wrote: > Here's a workaround: > > In Nautilus, press f9 to open the tree view, then right click on the mapped > drive and select unmount in the tree and it works. > > Kirk Thanks, that does indeed work! --

Re: [opensuse] How to delete an FTP server?

2005-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Frederik Vos wrote: Op woensdag 28 september 2005 17:41, schreef Shriramana Sharma: On 9/28/05, Bruce A. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has got to be a dumb question yet it is very much eluding me, so Now, how do I delete it? RMB->Move to trash is gray'd out.

Re: [opensuse] How to delete an FTP server?

2005-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Shriramana Sharma wrote: On 9/28/05, Bruce A. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has got to be a dumb question yet it is very much eluding me, so Now, how do I delete it? RMB->Move to trash is gray'd out. Dragging it to the trash gives an This has got to be a d

[opensuse] How to delete an FTP server?

2005-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
This has got to be a dumb question yet it is very much eluding me, so here goes .. I just tried out the Gnome on RC-1 and went to Places->Network Servers, then created a public FTP server. Makes an icon on my desktop, adds one to my Places menu, and it browses the FTP server's directory in Nautil

Re: [opensuse] Java repository & YaST abort

2005-09-19 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
06:49:42AM -0400, Bruce A. Mallett wrote: Yes, it has worked for me. That is good to know, thanks. Something must be wrong here as it is slow-slow-slow. Glacial in fact. Try a mirror: http://www.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Development_Build I try to use a mirror whenever possible. Th

Re: [opensuse] Java repository & YaST abort

2005-09-19 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
Rauch Christian wrote: Bruce A. Mallett schrieb: I've been trying to grab java-1_5_0-sun... from the java repository as listed on the download page (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-current/inst-source-java/) however it always stalls or near-stalls (one day I did get a

[opensuse] Java repository & YaST abort

2005-09-19 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I've been trying to grab java-1_5_0-sun... from the java repository as listed on the download page (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-current/inst-source-java/) however it always stalls or near-stalls (one day I did get as far as 25% in 18 hours of downloading). Anyone know if t