X60/X61 suspend (was Re: [opensuse] ThinkPad X61 prof)

2008-01-29 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue January 29 2008 04:03, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I own an Thinkpad X61s with Intel Graficscard.  The 3945 wireless works with latest 10.3 kernel update now ok.  Suspend to RAM and Disk is not really reliable and I have not been able to get enough debugging information for a perfect bug

Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Mon January 21 2008 07:03:10 Jerry Houston wrote: PerfectReign wrote: What's your Wintendo VPN client? Thanks for your reply. On the XP machine, it's part of the OS, rather than a separate utility. In the Network Connections dialog, it's just one of the options for creating a new

[opensuse] KDM login window not going into power save mode

2008-01-20 Thread Carlos F. Lange
I have a few 10.3 installations, but on only one of the machines, which has an NVidia GeForce 7300 LE, the KDM login window never goes black or to stand-by/power save mode. Since this is outside of the KDE environment, I don't know how to control it. I thought it had something to do with acpi

Re: [opensuse] java

2008-01-18 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Thu January 17 2008 09:02:13 M9. wrote: Anyway I solve this always by downloading 64b java from sun and sett manualy my environment. It is not so big problem. Would you mind sharing the way you do this with us? I am busy for days now to get java working with a 64Bit Firefox... Blackdown

Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?

2008-01-16 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Mon January 14 2008 15:31:45 Stan Goodman wrote: And how can I get an appropriate Java plugin into Firefox? I found this Wiki page by Waveclaw: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Waveclaw and I adapted his idea to install a standalone version of Firefox 32bit, only I installed it under /usr/local

Re: [opensuse] Java plugin for Firefox?

2008-01-16 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed January 16 2008 09:30, you wrote: On 16/01/2008, Marcin Floryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just moved your article here: http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSuS E_10.3 It should be best integrated with http://en.opensuse.org/User:Waveclaw as well so

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Live CD from openSUSE

2008-01-14 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Sun January 13 2008 21:50:37 Basil Chupin wrote: Strange. Mine boots fine. I get first a Grub menu similar to 10.3, but offering KDE 4 Live and Failsafe KDE 4 Live before hard disk and then it booted directly into KDE4 and I've tried out a few widgets and settings without problems.

Re: [opensuse] Problem getting printing to work in OpenOffice

2008-01-13 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Sun January 13 2008 00:54:28 Basil Chupin wrote: Anyway, many thanks for your response and I have finally got OpenOffice to *print* a document! If this is typical for the latest versions of OO, I'm surprised the code made it past the beta-test stage.  From the responses you would

Re: [opensuse] KDE4 Live CD from openSUSE

2008-01-13 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Sun January 13 2008 04:04:43 Rastislav Krupanský wrote: Yes, i can confirm problem with booting.I´ve downloaded it twice and it doesn´t want to boot. Regards, Rasto Dňa Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:38:41 +0100 Basil Chupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Appears to be a waste of time downloading this file

[opensuse] KDE4 Live CD from openSUSE

2008-01-12 Thread Carlos F. Lange
http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/ Since KDE4.0 is not yet production ready, a LiveCD is ideal to test the new cool interface and features. I'm downloading it right now. (you have to click on the link to get to the mirrors page) -- Carlos FL It is not worth an intelligent man's time

Re: [opensuse] odd /usr/bin thing

2008-01-07 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Sun January 6 2008 14:53:36 Aaron Kulkis wrote: No, because /usr/bin/X11 is supposed to point at /usr/X11R6/bin. do the following: $ su password: # cd /usr/bin # rm X11 # ln ../X11R6/bin X11 # exit $ ls -al /usr/bin/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-12-26 /usr/bin/X11 -

Re: [opensuse] how to mount ext2 USB-stick as user

2008-01-06 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Sun January 6 2008 00:20:26 jdd wrote: Carlos F. Lange a écrit : That is, devices are mounted by the currently active X session owner, regardless of who logged in last. problem is one can launch X remotely (with no use of usb, of course) so will the usb key be assigned to the people

Re: [opensuse] how to mount ext2 USB-stick as user

2008-01-05 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Fri January 4 2008 16:53:27 Joe Sloan wrote: OK, I just tested this and confirmed. Hal gives ownership to the currently active user That seems to conflict with data I've collected. If someone starts another X session after yours is established, and you then plug in a device, are you

Re: [opensuse] how to mount ext2 USB-stick as user

2008-01-04 Thread Carlos F. Lange
On Fri January 4 2008 10:11:37 Carlos F. Lange wrote: On Fri January 4 2008 05:16:51 James Knott wrote: Given that it's entirely possible to have multiple users logged in at the same time, which user would own it? I don't recall precisely, but I think automounter associates new mounts

Re: [opensuse] Encrypted Root Partition

2007-12-27 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu December 27 2007 05:03, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-26 at 17:51 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: I would only encrypt home. You know, I was going to go that route. However, I have no clue what to do. I see there's an option for something like a crypto, but I've yet to find

Re: [opensuse] GRUB Help - Howto boot 10.3 RAID 1 hardware SATA controller ?

2007-12-24 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon December 24 2007 09:32, David C. Rankin wrote: Where is the repair mini ISO? I can't find it at the link you provide or at opensuse? He pointed to the directory that has the 3 versions of the mini ISO. Here is the link directly to the i386 version:

Re: [opensuse] linutop

2007-12-01 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat December 1 2007 00:33, jdd wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] How to show Hidden folder ?

2007-11-20 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue November 20 2007 03:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT, I still have a problem, where I have a folder wish to copy to the a hidden folder, and then I right-click the folder, and select Copy To Browse, then a pop-up (Select Folder-Konqueror) is displayed, and I key-in the full path

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review

2007-11-20 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue November 20 2007 10:12, jdd wrote: this is the install of a power user upgrading an old install. Sorry, but your assumption is wrong. openSuse 10.3 now recognizes an existing installation and retrieves info from the old /etc/passwd before formatting the hard drive, even when a complete

Re: [opensuse] Kmail transfer from 10.2 to 10.3

2007-11-20 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue November 20 2007 09:06, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: Having a quit good working 10.3 now running KDE3, I want to transfer my mail folders from Kmail from the 10.2 to 10.3. Just copying the contents does not seem to do anything. What is the fast way. And how about the addressbook?

Re: [opensuse] Disable horizontal scroll on touchpad

2007-11-19 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 19 2007 13:26, Henk te Sligte wrote: I really love the feature that opensuse added to my touchpad, the vertical scrolling. However, when I installed opensuse 10.3, all of a sudden, when I moved my finger on the bottom part of the touchpad, Firefox detected it as horizontal

Re: [opensuse] Disable horizontal scroll on touchpad

2007-11-19 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 19 2007 20:46, you wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 11:20 AM, Carlos F Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked Personal Settings / Peripherals / Touchpad? I don't have Synaptics installed in this machine, but there may be a setting there that helps you. Do you mean from

Re: [opensuse] Where's my skull and crossbones ?

2007-11-19 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 19 2007 19:52, Bob S wrote: Hey SuSE lovers. Why did they take away my skull and crossbones ? I used to take great delight to hit ctl+alt+escape to kill an unresponsive app. Very appropriate. Now they have some wimpy little white x. Boo !! Bring it back ! I second that!

Re: [opensuse] Undoing a delete

2007-11-18 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 18 2007 01:01, Catimimi wrote: Aaron Kulkis a écrit : Bryen wrote: Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Have a look here : http://www.diskdoctors.net/linux-data-recovery/software.html Is the world backwards? This is a Win32 product! Do they want me to go and find a

Re: [opensuse] Undoing a delete

2007-11-18 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 18 2007 11:25, Catimimi wrote: Carlos F Lange a écrit : On Sun November 18 2007 01:01, Catimimi wrote: Aaron Kulkis a écrit : Bryen wrote: Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Have a look here : http://www.diskdoctors.net/linux-data-recovery/software.html

Re: [opensuse] Undoing a delete

2007-11-17 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat November 17 2007 15:40, Bryen wrote: Is there any way to undo an rm in terminal? Probably not, but thought I'd ask... Googling for undelete ext3 showed this recent link, which might lead you somewhere: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14493 -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is

Re: [opensuse] Starting apps automatically in console session

2007-11-15 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu November 15 2007 20:54, Bryen wrote: After logging in in KDE I would like to launch an application like top automatically in a dedicated session in the konsole window ? One konsole with a few sessions are already in place via Save session, but how to start the apps automatically

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager and OpenVPN - SUSE 10.3

2007-11-13 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 12 2007 11:48, James Knott wrote: KNetworkManager does allow you to setup static address on a per-card basis. For example, I set a static address for the wired Ethernet, since I expect to use it mostly at home, and I left the wireless card as DHCP. But ideally I would like

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager and OpenVPN - SUSE 10.3

2007-11-12 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 11 2007 18:12, James Knott wrote: I also wrote my own script quite a while ago. One thing it does, is check to see if it can find my WiFi router. If so, it uses one configuration. If not, it assumes it's away from home and uses another. I guess this is another feature of

Re: [opensuse] /tmp is taken the whole partition!

2007-11-12 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 12 2007 08:43, Carlos E. R. wrote: Q3: Any direction where should I go? Log-off your user, delete all files belonging to your user under /tmp, then tell the system to delete /tmp files periodically or at boottime or both (your choice). To implement that the easiest is to go

Re: [opensuse] tmp folder cleanup

2007-11-12 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 12 2007 23:04, Jaco Carlson wrote: Can you safely delete all files in /tmp? I would say, it depends. Some files and directories are used for your current environment, such as kde-username/ and ksocket-username/ and some .tmp files. Have a look at which are the recent files with

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager and OpenVPN - SUSE 10.3

2007-11-11 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat November 10 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote: Does KNetworkManager actually work with OpenVPN. I've installed the OpenVPN part of KnetworkManager and trying everything I can think of, I cannot get it to connect. I get an error message: I would be interested to know, if you get it to

Re: [opensuse] Error Message

2007-11-10 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat November 10 2007 02:12, chika wrote:  till now i always prompt many dialog box with title  $App($App=konqueror,KDesktop, Kate, etc) still with the same message ould not find mime type application/octet-stream  eventhough i don't save last session on SESSION MANAGER. I never had a

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 be

[opensuse] no / appended to directory name completion

2007-11-08 Thread Carlos F Lange
On 10.3 I don't get a / at the end of an automatic directory name completion (using Tab) when I am using the command cd. All other commands, such cp or rm -rf, append the / when a directory is uniquely matched, only cd doesn't. This forces me to type the slash before I can get a list of

Re: [opensuse] Thinkpad T60p install

2007-11-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue November 6 2007 11:25, Mr Banana wrote: The only big issue seems to be when the screen saver/lock kicks in - sometimes it covers just 3/4 of the screen and often doesn't pop up the login box. It's not a driver problem, I think. I have the same weird behaviour (screen saver covers only

Re: [opensuse] kdesu does not recognize password in 10.3? [SOLVED]

2007-11-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed November 7 2007 10:52, Carlos F Lange wrote: What I find not OK is that these settings disable the root password in kdesu. While I could always start YaST2 using my user password, I just created a test user that is only allowed in sudoers to install printers and run openvpn

Re: [opensuse] kdesu does not recognize password in 10.3? [SOLVED]

2007-11-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
OK, I figured it out. On Mon November 5 2007 06:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-11-05 at 02:24 -0600, Carlos F Lange wrote: I can't fire up Yast from kde, using kdesu I presume. I can su to root on any console or xterm, and using gnome - but not kdesu in kde. It seems

Re: [opensuse] kdesu does not recognize password in 10.3?

2007-11-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 4 2007 20:02, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-11-04 at 12:03 -0600, Carlos F Lange wrote: Strange thing. Today I can't get my laptop with 10.3 to recognize root's password in the kdesu authentication window. The password works fine in Konsole, in ctrl+alt+F1 text mode

Re: [opensuse] some bash hints, please

2007-11-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon November 5 2007 00:03, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I am looking for some bash scripts: 1. I want to list all text files of one directory with a blank line in between. Currently I just use grep * You are listing the content of the files with this command and I don't get a blank line in

Re: [opensuse] External USB disk drive - how to get started?

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat November 3 2007 18:44, Janus wrote: On Saturday 03 November 2007 23:54, James Knott wrote: Plug it in. Then open Yast Partitioner. You should see the drive. Format it and specify the desired mount point. I go YaST - System - Partitioner - and I only see /dev/hda - no external

[opensuse] kdesu does not recognize password in 10.3?

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
Strange thing. Today I can't get my laptop with 10.3 to recognize root's password in the kdesu authentication window. The password works fine in Konsole, in ctrl+alt+F1 text mode, but not in the kdesu window. I am pretty sure I typed one of the 20 attempts correctly and caps-lock is obviously

Re: [opensuse] Can I do this with rsync? (Grsync)

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun October 28 2007 19:10, Carlos F Lange wrote: I will have to explore it more, but it looks like exactly what we want: Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different

[opensuse] user-level GUI for openVPN

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
Hi, My department switched last week to openVPN at the firewall and it is closing the SSH port. I can connect to the server as root running openvpn --config client.ovpn (with the config file provided by the department) and everything seems to work, even NX, as long as I keep that connection

Re: [opensuse] user-level GUI for openVPN

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 4 2007 16:33, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Sun, 04 Nov 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, My department switched last week to openVPN at the firewall and it is closing the SSH port. I can connect to the server as root running openvpn --config client.ovpn (with the config file

Re: [opensuse] user-level GUI for openVPN

2007-11-04 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun November 4 2007 19:21, you wrote: On Nov 5, 2007 6:37 AM, Carlos F Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, info: Successful disconnected. info: Connection duration was 00 hours, 00 minutes, 03 seconds info: Reconnect after connection lost enabled, reconnecting... error

Re: [opensuse-factory] does openSUSE 10.3 Live the rescue system fixed?

2007-11-03 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri November 2 2007 13:36, Gabriel . wrote: As the subject says, does it? No, it doesn't: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-11/msg00014.html (I mixed up CD and DVD ...) But Stefan hints there that it can be fixed in a revised version of the Live CDs. -- Carlos FL Who is

[opensuse-factory] can I use YaST2 Product Creator to create remastered 10.3 ISO?

2007-11-03 Thread Carlos F Lange
From this nice overview of the new Creator tools in YaST2: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=478 I get the impression that I can use the Product Creator, the 10.3 GM DVD and the repositories to create a remastered 10.3 DVD with all the bug fixes to date (including the infamous Repair Tool). In

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Spanish translations Congratulations to development teams

2007-11-03 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat November 3 2007 10:36, Daniel Antonio Peraza Cedrez wrote: Hi, I've just installed 10.3 and I noticed that Spanish translation support is not complete. I would like to offer some help on this issue, would somebody give me some directions to get me started?. Start here:

Re: [opensuse] intall hints for 10.3 on Thinkpad?

2007-11-02 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu November 1 2007 22:51, Zoltan Levardy wrote: thanks guys for hint ;) i needed to reboot 3 times while repartitioning. Finally i am having a feeling it needs to refresh partition table to re-read. And format cannot be done just after a partition created. But it's just working with bit

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

2007-11-01 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu November 1 2007 06:56, Richard Creighton wrote: Stephan Kulow wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] Stupid Compiz questions

2007-11-01 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed October 31 2007 21:07, Bob S wrote: On Wednesday 31 October 2007 01:56:12 am CyberOrg wrote: On Oct 31, 2007 10:07 AM, Bob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello SuSE people, Running 10.3 64 bit with KDE. I installed compiz-fusion. I find it locks up some applications and some

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Boxes (shipping?)

2007-10-29 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon October 29 2007 10:48, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: russbucket wrote: On Monday October 29 2007 01:02, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Did you get in the meantime some reaction? The problems should have been solved by now... Andreas Only response I have gotten so far is an email saying

Re: [opensuse] Re: [RESOLVED] Site does not work in openSUSE version of Firefox but OK in Mozilla version?

2007-10-28 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri October 26 2007 11:05, Mark Goldstein wrote: So it looks like somehow SUSE version of FF identifies itself differently and site does not handle it as FF. I've checked that SUSE version has additional useragent fields: vendor and vendorSub. Could they cause such a behavior?

Re: [opensuse] compiz mouse pointer

2007-10-28 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon October 22 2007 04:33, primm wrote: Is there any way I can change the mouse pointer in compiz? I am using the emerald theme and my employees do not like the old fashioned looking left pointing hand that netscape used to have even though it must be a right hand pointing left. In any

Re: [opensuse] Can I do this with rsync? (unison)

2007-10-28 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu October 25 2007 06:42, Carlos F Lange wrote: But if i use the rsync command without the --delete parameter it won't delete any files at all on the receiving side, right? And if I have an extra one in either receiving or sending side, it'll add it, right? Your synchronization

Re: [opensuse] Can I do this with rsync?

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue October 23 2007 22:39, Robert Smits wrote: I have a number of systems I'd like to regularly back up with rsync. Let me describe them. I created these two scripts, which allow me to synchronize things between office, home desktop and laptop, in any direction I want, only updating what is

Re: [opensuse] Can I do this with rsync? (scripts)

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos F Lange
Bob, Your reply just made me notice that I replied to you directly, instead of to the mailing-list. So, I resent my message for the benefit of the others. On Wed October 24 2007 20:06, Robert Smits wrote: What does the first line with #!/bin/bash do? I understand it's a descriptive comment,

Re: [opensuse] Is beagle supposed to find emails?

2007-10-25 Thread Carlos F Lange
I have used kerry/beagle successfully a few times. For example, to search through a 100 PDF files from a conference. On Wed October 24 2007 17:12, Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, Beagle is running almost continuously (beagle-0.2.17-6.1 in suse 10.2), indexing and using most of my cpu. I have 0.2.17

[opensuse] login with fingerprint reader in KDE?

2007-10-22 Thread Carlos F Lange
The Wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Fingerprint_Authentication) indicates only GDM (Gnome) or a login shell currently allow login with fingerprint swipe in 10.3. Is there any way to activate the login in KDM for KDE also? -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?

Re: [opensuse] Old kde bug.

2007-10-21 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri October 19 2007 17:01, Fred A. Miller wrote: Every time you log on as a user, a copy of kickerrc called kickerrc.org (for original) is written. If you loose the taskbar, DON'T logout, but use konq. to delete the kickerrc file and copy the *.org file to kickerrc. Then, ctrl-alt-del to

Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

2007-10-15 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon October 15 2007 06:17, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: Dňa Friday 12 October 2007 19:07:51 Robert Lewis ste napísal: I would like to suggest that the software could be made more intelligent to detect if the above two repositories have been added and then the original line pointing to the

Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

2007-10-15 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon October 15 2007 07:42, Rajko M. wrote: With todays hard disk capacities it is easy to copy DVD to hard disk and make it repository. No need for DVD. Major computer vendors do similar with other OS for a long time, having small partition with system backup. I do that often, but are

Re: [opensuse] Transferring from 10.1 system to 10.3

2007-10-12 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri October 12 2007 03:00, Phil Burness wrote: Hi, I've installed 10.3 on a separate partition and want to transfer *some* of my profile to the 10.3 system. Notably I want to transfer the following: Kmail 'accounts and mail folders / messages' Amarok 'settings (last.fm login, preferences,

Re: [opensuse] nxserver on OpenSuSE 10.3

2007-10-09 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue October 9 2007 14:01, Scott Moseman wrote: Where do I go from here? The nxclient should be ok, it works on several other (albeit all CentOS) boxes. As far as I can tell, sshd is configured the same between CentOS and OpenSuSE. Maybe some environmental variable I need to set/change in

Re: [opensuse] MD5SUM on GM

2007-10-08 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon October 8 2007 06:38, Ciro Iriarte wrote: Hi, Just downloaded the x86_64 iso for 10.2 GM, the checksum matches the iso image but if i burn it and do a md5sum /dev/sr0 i get a different checksum. Tried also the media test option within the installation and it returns Aceptar in a bad

Re: [opensuse] home partition is full

2007-08-26 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun August 26 2007 14:09, Ken Jennings wrote: Is this new?  I'm using 10.2 and Kmail keeps only a few config files in locations under the .kde directory.  All the mail is in ~/Mail If you have a directory ~/Mail when you first start KDE, it honours that directory and uses it. Otherwise it

Re: [opensuse] guru url (also Packman)

2007-08-21 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue August 21 2007 01:04, jdd wrote: Don Raboud wrote: If YaST, I'm *guessing* you might need to add RPMS to the end. I have for example (under 10.2): http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/RPMS I'm not sure about this though. If you check the openSUSE web page

Re: [opensuse-factory] slow 3D and no tablet/touchscreen in X60 with 10.3b1

2007-08-19 Thread Carlos F Lange
by aticonfig, and the works right. My X60 has an Intel graphic card, as I say below, and the driver is the open source intel. The same driver (I don't know how to check its version) is used by 10.1 and gives good 3D results. 2007/8/18, Carlos F Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, My installation

[opensuse-factory] slow 3D and no tablet/touchscreen in X60 with 10.3b1

2007-08-18 Thread Carlos F Lange
Hi, My installation of 10.3 beta 1 on Thinkpad X60 went well. The only major problem was that the lack of recognition of the wireless card (Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 ABG), which I reported in bugzilla (Bug 301076). Two minor things I don't know how to report are: 1) During Saving Remote

[opensuse-factory] software management and update

2007-08-18 Thread Carlos F Lange
I was glad to see the import/export feature come back to Yast2/Sofware Management ( I missed it much in 10.1 and I skipped 10.2). In Online Update, I installed both a kernel patch and the update-test-optional patch. I got 2 different behaviours following this update. When I reopened Online

Re: [opensuse] when? - Oct. 4

2007-08-18 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat August 18 2007 19:15, Doug McGarrett wrote: Quite a few months ago, it was stated that 10.3 would arrive in August. August is well into ending, and nothing has been mentioned. Has the schedule changed, or what's up? Here is the roadmap: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3 public

Re: [opensuse] MD5 ?

2007-08-16 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu August 16 2007 03:51, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. I can find all md5's but not the one for opsuse10.3B1 on DVD. Where can I see it ?. Add your voice to the Bug #299907 in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299907 -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my

[opensuse-factory] md5sums for beta?

2007-08-11 Thread Carlos F Lange
I am downloading the beta 1 DVD, but I cannot find the md5sums. I think there should be a link to them in this page: http://software.opensuse.org/developer -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -

Re: [opensuse-factory] md5sums for beta?

2007-08-11 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat August 11 2007 00:21, Jim Pye wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:12 -0600, Carlos F Lange wrote: I am downloading the beta 1 DVD, but I cannot find the md5sums. I think there should be a link to them in this page: http://software.opensuse.org/developer Just had the same problem. I

Re: [opensuse] k3b cue bin files

2007-07-30 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Mon July 30 2007 03:21, primm wrote: I have a .cue file and a large .bin file of 806Mb How do I burn this onto a blank DVD using K3b? BTW the combination plays fine in vlc. I just want it playable on my home video machine. Things I've tried: I've tried new video dvd project dropping the

Re: [opensuse-factory] pdftk 1.41

2007-07-26 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Thu July 26 2007 09:01, Bernhard Walle wrote: Please file a bug report as “Enhancement”. OK, submitted as Bug 29479. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] How can I PDF file personalize

2007-07-26 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed July 25 2007 06:48, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I have a book in pdf format. I want to give it away, but I want to brand each page with a personal note of the user. How can I make that automatically? Try using pdftk with the background option. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [softwaremgmt] when to refresh?

2007-07-20 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri July 20 2007 09:04, Klaus Kaempf wrote: * Duncan Mac-Vicar P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Jul 20. 2007 16:36]: On Friday 20 July 2007 01:57:13 pm Klaus Kaempf wrote: For 'zypper sa http://foo bar', why do user NOT want an immediate metadata download ? Lets see - the system is

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 Update package store location?

2007-07-17 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue July 17 2007 09:32, Sunny wrote: On 7/17/07, Russell Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use tar, use the -a option to preserve special devices, etc. See the man page. I do not see -a option in man tar? What do I miss? It's an option of cp not of tar. If you use tar, you should

[opensuse-factory] fingerprint reader support

2007-07-15 Thread Carlos F Lange
Is there a plan to include fingerprint reader support in 10.3? According to Thinkwiki there is a thinkfinger driver and Fedora has a libbiometrics RPM implementing it. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?

Re: [opensuse-factory] fingerprint reader support

2007-07-15 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun July 15 2007 12:41, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Carlos F Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a plan to include fingerprint reader support in 10.3? There was already some support in openSUSE 10.2 - check our wiki. According to Thinkwiki there is a thinkfinger driver and Fedora has

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

2007-07-08 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat July 7 2007 13:25, Carlos F Lange wrote: On Sat July 7 2007 08:27, Andreas Jaeger wrote: TextMaker TeXlive What do you think? I change my vote. I thought TexLive was in addition to teTex, the usual Latex package. As Alberto pointed out, there is talk about removing

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

2007-07-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat July 7 2007 10:02, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: TeXlive Hello, I agree with you about ARCAD, Planmaker, SEPsesam and TextMaker. But I think a LaTeX edition should be available also on some media. I think it's selected at installation time by a lot of university/research users, so it

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

2007-07-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat July 7 2007 08:27, Andreas Jaeger wrote: * Remove ARCAD completely since it does not work at all on x86-64 (see bug #248873) * Offer software that reached either 80% on Never or less than 15 % on Often + Very often only via *ftp* with 10.3.  The following software would be affected:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

2007-07-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat July 7 2007 10:08, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-07 16:27]: TeXlive Also the DVD in the box? As the discussion in this enhancement suggestion shows: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263606 the box will not contain everything, because of

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

2007-07-07 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat July 7 2007 13:51, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: Hello Carlos, this is not exactly what I understood in status meetings. For example here: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2007-04-25/transcript Andreas said they are switching from tetex to TeXLive: [quote] (18:02:44)

[opensuse] Firefox 2.0.0.4-8.3 not showing some JPEGs

2007-07-06 Thread Carlos F Lange
Hi, I updated my Firefox from http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_10.1/ to 2.0.0.4-8.3 a couple of days ago and now it cannot display some JPEG images, such as the background image showing 3 suns in my old symposium page: http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/space/ and an image

Re: [opensuse] Firefox plugins, e.g. Flashplayer, not being seen [SOLVED]

2007-06-25 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun June 24 2007 23:17, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: I tried this and even rebooted, but now Firefox only sees the two plugins (KDE Parts Plugin, DjVuLibre-3.5.16) that it saw without any ~/.mozilla/plugins. It is as if this directory didn't exist. But it is readable to world and ls -lL

[opensuse] Firefox plugins, e.g. Flashplayer, not being seen

2007-06-24 Thread Carlos F Lange
I am not sure when it happened, but I am running Firefox 2.0.0.4-8.3 in Suse 10.1 (upgraded this past week) and about:plugins shows only: KDE Parts Plugin DjVuLibre-3.5.16 OpenOffice.org Plug-in If I move .mozilla/ to .mozilla_save and start fresh, about:plugins shows only: KDE Parts Plugin

Re: [opensuse] Firefox plugin mplayer problem

2007-06-24 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sat June 23 2007 05:51, StephenW wrote: This morning, while attempting to use YAHOO (with Firefox 2.0.0.3) its video news feeds will not play. They did last night. It wanted me to install x-ms-wmp. After a couple of google attempts I found this. Not sure what it all means... Except it

Re: [opensuse] Firefox plugins, e.g. Flashplayer, not being seen

2007-06-24 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun June 24 2007 14:53, Jan Tiggy wrote: Carlos F Lange schrieb: A 'rm -r ~/.mozilla/plugins/' combined with 'ln - s /usr/lib/browser-plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins' worked for me. I tried this and even rebooted, but now Firefox only sees the two plugins (KDE Parts Plugin, DjVuLibre

Re: [opensuse] Opening attachments in Kontact'S KMail directly with OOo

2007-06-17 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri June 15 2007 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I try to open an OOo-Writer document directly from Kontact's KMail, I get the following message: /tmp/kde-usr/Letter name with spaces.doc_[AIN1nb].doc does not exist. Only after saving it can the document be opened. I get

Re: [opensuse] How can I change the default printer for Firefox

2007-06-10 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Sun June 10 2007 18:17, Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, I change, using cups, the default printer for the user, but Firefox still wants to use the previous default printer. How do I convince Firefox to change to the real default printer instead of his own idea of what should be the default

Re: [opensuse] RAID not visible in media:/

2007-06-09 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Fri June 8 2007 04:43, HG wrote: On 6/8/07, HG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know why my RAID doesn't show up in sysinfo:/ ? Where does that information come from? Or should I report this as a bug? If so, is this ok to put under KDE bugs, or? I think it is adequate to submit to:

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

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed June 6 2007 08:43, james wright wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 02:46:36 pm Eberhard Roloff wrote: I once experienced the exact same problem. For the heart of it I could not find out why it did not work in Linux while it worked in Windows and did work in Linux, before. (it was a

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

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos F Lange
I solved the problem with brute force (see my other e-mail today), but I wanted to reply here to see if learn some more. On Tue June 5 2007 14:11, G T Smith wrote: Carlos F Lange wrote: On Tue June 5 2007 09:37, G T Smith wrote: snip A very faint possibility is that there may

Re: [opensuse] RAID not visible in media:/

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Wed June 6 2007 10:05, HG wrote: Hi! I created a RAID with YaST. It's formatted and mounted (by YaST) and generally seems to be working. However, when I open either media:/ or sysinfo:/ it's not there at all. The other, non-RAID, disks are. What's wrong? Why isn't the RAID shown under the

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

2007-06-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue June 5 2007 01:40, G T Smith wrote: Carlos F Lange wrote: One of my desktop machines is dual-boot and lived happily attached to my SMC router, which has a built in DHCP server. After a change of network card the DHCP server saw and assigned an address to it, as usual. After booting

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

2007-06-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote: Perhaps the cable dropped down. No cable problem. That is exactly what is killing me. The lights on the router are on (also when I changed ports and cable) and when I reboot into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the usual IP address

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