Re: [opensuse] Certification

2007-06-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
Pueblo Native wrote: I sent an e-mail to the LPI about this, but if anybody here knows the answer, I'd appreciate it: on average, how long do exams 101 and 102 last? I'd like to know this so I can schedule my tests without having them run over each other (the closest testing facility is 30 miles

Re: [opensuse] USB 2.0 external hard drives

2007-05-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, May 1, 2007 17:22, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 5/1/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I ended up formatting it with FAT32. > > I had someone fairly knowledgeable tell me that in the real world they > are seeing problems when using FAT32 on 500GB and above drives. We've > been using

Re: [opensuse] External USB hotswap HDDs

2007-05-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, May 1, 2007 02:35, John O'Gorman wrote: > 1. Is it OK to just unplug the device without using umount? No. Most of the time, if the disc has been sitting on idle for a while, you'll get away with it (but your filesystem will be marked as NOT CLEAN). BUT: I have noticed that SUSE tends to

Re: [opensuse] Hyperthreading

2007-04-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 23:40 +0100, Matthew Stringer wrote: > However on this AM2 machine it has ht listed in the flags, thought that was > for hyperthreading: It's probably for Hyper Transport, which is the communication bus that replaces the FSB. I don't really know the details except that it e

Re: [opensuse] 3G phone + BT dial-up

2007-04-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 22:32 +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote: > Hi, > > Any pointers how to configure BT capable 3G phone (Nokia e70) for 3G data > over BT? BT seems to work between the phone and laptop just fine but PPP > dial-up is another thing. I've only done bluetooth/gprs dial-up on T-mobile, bu

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:47 +1000, Registration Account wrote: > In Australia I pay AUD60.00 per month for ADSL 2/+ - AUD60 == USD72 > 24000k/1000k for monthly 18GB. So theoretically you can get capped in 10 minutes? ;-) > If exceeded I just get slowed down to a snail rate of 128k/128k Does the

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 14:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, April 12, 2007 13:42, Per Qvindesland wrote: >> Well here in South Africa I have a 512KB Adsl line do it only gives me >> about 256 KB and with a 3GB Cap which I pay Rand 1400 which is USD >> 195.00, and yeas it

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 13:42, Per Qvindesland wrote: > Well here in South Africa I have a 512KB Adsl line do it only gives me > about 256 KB and with a 3GB Cap which I pay Rand 1400 which is USD > 195.00, and yeas it sucks Who are you with? They're milking you - you can get uncapped for that kind

Re: [opensuse] OT: Price & speed of internet outside US

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 12:25, ken wrote: > > What do people outside the US pay for their internet connection and > > how fast is the connection? > > > If you have links to this info understandable by English/German reader, > that would be appreciated also. Which countries are you interested in? H

Re: [opensuse] Mysql question

2007-04-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, April 11, 2007 17:54, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> I have records with the date in DD-MM-, but mysql wants them in >> -MM-DD. Is there anyway of changing Mysql's format? > > I don't EVER use MySQL; Please don't make a statement like that without explaining why. I can think of a f

Re: [opensuse] Another grep question

2007-04-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 20:49 +0200, James Hatridge wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a grep or awk question. I have a file with many > records of 4 lines each in it. Like this: > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > etc, etc > > I need the file to look like this: > > 1 tab 2 tab 3 tab 4 > 1 tab 2 ta

RE: [opensuse] Sun x2100 vs. HP DL320 G5

2007-04-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, April 4, 2007 16:21, Paul Hutchings wrote: > Originally I was looking at the original x2100 and not the M2, simply > because (oddly) the x2100 has 3 year NBD warranty as standard whilst the > M2 model only has one year which would add around 20% to the cost to > upgrade. I mentioned the M2

Re: [opensuse] Sun x2100 vs. HP DL320 G5

2007-04-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, April 4, 2007 15:42, Paul Hutchings wrote: > I'm looking to buy a basic 1U server to run a mail relay (OpenSuse 10.2 > + Postfix/MailScanner/Spamassassin/ClamAV). > > My Linux knowledge is very much beginner so I need hardware that will > pretty much let me install OpenSuse "out the box". >

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, March 29, 2007 16:48, James Knott wrote: > My ThinkPad R31 had a modem on a daughter board, shared with WiFi. It > was a software modem that was supported in later versions of SUSE and > worked well. Unfortunately, I lost that modem, when I upgraded the > WiFi. However, there are single

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-29 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, March 29, 2007 15:43, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > From the 'Dell' article: > > For cases such as WinModems, for which there are neither open source nor > proprietary drivers > available, Dell will be encouraging users to substitute a hardware-based > modem. "However, we can't > substitute hardwa

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, March 28, 2007 11:39, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Onsdag 28 marts 2007 12:32 skrev Hans du Plooy: >> The 6325 has the buggiest ACPI you're likely to encounter - it has >> exactly >> the same bugs as the 6125. There are several ACPI bugs that don't

Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

2007-03-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, March 28, 2007 10:46, Aschwin Marsman wrote: > I'm currently thinking about buying a HP, e.g. NC6320 with > intel processor, NC6325 with AMD processor. The 6325 has the buggiest ACPI you're likely to encounter - it has exactly the same bugs as the 6125. There are several ACPI bugs that do

Re: [opensuse] Recent Radeon without fglrx driver

2007-03-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 21:37 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote / schrieb: > > > I want to switch back to the DRI drivers, but I don't have a backup of > > my xorg.conf. I seem to have 3D working (I'm getting the right FPS with > > glxgears)

[opensuse] Recent Radeon without fglrx driver

2007-03-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, When I installed SUSE 10.1/10.2 it setup my notebook's Radeon m200 (X300 in marketing speak) RV370 with the radeon driver (from X.org). 3D definitely did work - not very fast, but it did work. I loaded the binary driver for various reasons (performance and some shortcomings), but for so

Re: [opensuse] More Odd mail bounces

2007-03-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:04 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > I doubt it. ncl.ca is an internet provider in Canada. It looks like someone > is > fetching emails (e.g. with fetchmail) to their local mail daemon (which then > is misconfigured to not accept emails for @localhost) It hurts my head

Re: [opensuse] More Odd mail bounces

2007-03-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:22 -0800, John Andersen wrote: > I have been getting mail bounces this morning (sunday) > from ca.safenet-inc.com, from postings made to this list > back around NOVEMBER 15 2006!!! > > Anyone else see this? Care to post a full header? I don't see that domain in my mail l

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, March 16, 2007 11:09, Anders Norrbring wrote: > Oh yeah. > Today the Adaptec 2820SA adapter arrived... What a difference! > Everything runs on the controller, and it's MORE than twice as fast than > the Highpoint. Glad to hear! Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Notebook (ACPI) (Was: Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?)

2007-03-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 18:56, David Brodbeck wrote: > ACPI is definitely a mixed bag. I don't think I've ever seen a system > where it worked completely right, unlike APM, which was pretty mature. Worked like a bomb on my Compaq Armada m700 - too bad the notebook could only take 512mb memory, other

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 09:26, Anders Norrbring wrote: > I'll look into that one a bit closer. But I'd really like a 8-channel > card for future expansion, preferably a SAS card, but I'm not so sure > anymore... Not SAS, but same as the 2420SA - just with 8 ports: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/produc

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 06:12, Anders Norrbring wrote: > I downloaded their driver packs to see what was in them, and this is in > the README file: > > 1. Overview > > > The SHIM (Adaptec HostRAID re-compilable package ) code model allows OK, I wasn't aware of this - haven't worke

Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL

2007-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, March 6, 2007 05:39, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007, Hans du Plooy wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 12:23 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: >> > I'm using ipcop as firewall. Just searched for the possibility to >> > blacklist an ip without luck. I

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:25 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: > Hans du Plooy skrev: > > http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=adaptec+2820SA&btnG=Froogle-Suche > > > > And this card is definitely not crap. > > > > Hans > > > > I've been doing so

Re: [opensuse] Martin Glötzl-Koch STOP BOUNCING LIST MAIL

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 12:23 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: > I'm using ipcop as firewall. Just searched for the possibility to > blacklist an ip without luck. I guess you can only do that with custom > rules on the command line. Drop them in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall.local Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, March 4, 2007 22:35, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Anyhow, stay away from any RAID controller that is cheaper than 1000 EUR > because it's crap. And yet, software RAID on Linux outperforms most of > them. 1000 EUR? http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=adaptec+2820SA&btnG=Froogle-Suche And this ca

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-03-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:18 +, Peter Bradley wrote: > However it has been flakey: and the once-a-month issue with the grapics > card has been the least of my worries. Thunderbird regularly freezes or > crashes and has to be re-started (in fact this is the second time I've > written this bec

Re: [opensuse] Aircards and Linux.

2007-02-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:34 +0200, Teemu Nikkilä wrote: > On Tuesday, 13. February 2007 13:50, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > (I used a bluetooth connection to my Nokia > > 6230, for example). > > Is setting this up documented somewhere? /etc/ppp/peers/gprs: lcp-max-configure

Re: [opensuse] Aircards and Linux.

2007-02-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
> So I am guessing it's safe to assume that virtually anycard will work as > long as > you set it up properly. No. You need a driver for it. *Some* cards simply show up the same as a 56k external modem and creates a normal serial port device. But that's only *some*. Most need some kind of drive

Re: [opensuse] Aircards and Linux.

2007-02-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
> I was just thinking about this. You know those aircards you can get from > your > cellphone provider and be able to connect to the internet using the > cellphone > network. Anyways, has anyone tried to use one under Linux? Maybe you know > the > theory behind it or something. I think it's treated

Re: [opensuse] kernel updates

2007-02-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:35 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD has only the > > kernel package, no kernel-source package (which I will need for ATi > > drivers and the like). > > That should get changed IMO. Which, the URL/content, or the fact

[opensuse] kernel updates

2007-02-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I haven't had to do this in ages, and with Mantel gone, I'm not sure where to find "official unofficial" kernels for SUSE. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD has only the kernel package, no kernel-source package (which I will need for ATi drivers and the like). And

Re: [opensuse] ati driver for radeon VE

2007-01-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
> do you know by what reference, if any, ati does name the radeon VE? It is the good old Radeon 7000 chipset, which works with the "radeon" module - you don't need the drivers off ATi's website. I'm surprised that YaST didn't set it up straight away. Try this: # init 3 # sax2 -m 0=radeon Han

Re: [opensuse] PCMICA wifi card that doesn't require ndiswrapper?

2007-01-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:55 -0600, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: I'm looking to help a friend out with his selection of wifi card. He > no longer wants to use the internal card that needs ndiswrapper and > would love to just have a PCMCIA card. Any suggestions for one that > "just works" with SUS

Re: [opensuse] copying to iPOD Nano

2007-01-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:25 -0600, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: How do I use Banshee to rip tracks from a cdrom to an iPOD and have that > register on the iPOD's menu? I opened Banshee, and it read a CDRom > source. I clicked on "Import" and it seemed to transfer the material to > the iPOD. I can

[opensuse] bootable flasdrive

2007-01-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm trying to make a bootable USB flash drive to install Debian on a stiffy/CD-romless machine. I'm working on SUSE though (hence my posting here. I'm following this page: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en the quick way didn't work, so I'm doing the "flexible

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuSE Box into a WIFI router

2007-01-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:34 -0800, Jay Smith wrote: > Any clue on how to do that? I have used regular WIFI routers in my day and > it's > no big deal. You want to mod it, 192.168.blank.1 enter username and password, > you're good. I am wondering how would one manage things like WPA2 or WPA-PSK >

[opensuse] OpenOffice 2.1 rpms

2007-01-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, Anyone know when OpenOffice 2.1 is going to arrive in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/ ? Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:16 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote: > Martin Mielke wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > I experienced some not-no-nice behaviour when using the default > application on SuSE 10.2 called kwifimanager ... it shows the > different networks but I still haven't managed to use it for > connec

[opensuse] Connecting to WiFi hotspot

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
This is slightly OT, but relevant nevertheless. I stopped by a Starbucks in London today and wanted to use the internet. Network manager sees the "default" network, but can't connect. When I look in my logs I see DHCP request getting sent, but no reply. How do these things work? Thanks Hans -

Re: [opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:48 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > That is the preferred way for SLES, and although it is dramatically > different than the traditional suse (opensuse), its pretty neat because > ldap is used for everything, users mail (even mail for non users, e.g. > people with no login acc

Re: [opensuse] Airport Extreme supported with OpenSuse?

2006-12-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:12 +0100, Klaas. wrote: > Hi, > I am considering to install OpenSuse 10.2 on > a Mac Mini G4. It has an Airport wireless > connection to the internet. > Does anyone have such a configuration with > Airport Extreme working? I still have to buy the board with the

Re: [opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2006-12-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 19:09 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSuSE 10.2 > based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web > server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, > FTP server, MySQL se

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org - Microsoft Office interoperability

2006-12-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 20:20 +, Dave Howorth wrote: > I would suggest using .RTF as the interchange format if .DOC isn't > working. There's obviously something wrong with MS Office if it can't > read and write RTF properly :) It can't! Try this: Take wordpad, make a complex .rtf document (wel

Re: [opensuse] how to install usb external disk

2006-12-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:42 +0100, Primm wrote: > I have a zaapa usb external drive. I thought I could simply plug it in and > write to it. It does not show up under the kde 'my computer' as I expected it > would. Running evmsgui it shows as /dev/evms/sda but I've no idea how to > write to it. W

Re: [opensuse] Suspend to ram with HP nx6125 on Suse 10.2

2006-12-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 08:58 -0500, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:12 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Ok, well, I haven't loaded any of the necessary drivers yet - fglrx, > > ndiswrapper (the bc43xx driver doesn't suppord my version of the > > wi

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.2 Laptop runs hot after resume

2006-12-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:51 +0200, Andre Truter wrote: > I don't have suspend-to-ram working, only suspend-to-disk (Hibernate) > with successful resume. > I don't think suspend-to-ram works on the HP nx6125 On a fresh install with only the included drivers it does work very well. Not through the

Re: [opensuse] Suspend to ram with HP nx6125 on Suse 10.2

2006-12-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 10:59 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 08:51 +0200, Andre Truter wrote: > > After upgrading to OpenSUSE 10.2, my suspend-to-disk (hibernate) and > > resume-from-disk works on my nx6125! > > That's it, I'm starting the downl

Re: [opensuse] Firewire card recommendation

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:28 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Can anyone recommend a firewire card the will work with Suse 10.0, kernel > 2.6.13-15.8-smp, x86_64. Last time I checked even Windows 2000 had a generic driver for this one: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/firewire/fw_adapt/AFW-4300

Re: [opensuse] 4 port NIC recommendation for SuSE-10.0

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:05 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: > Can anyone recommend a quad port nic card that will work on SuSE-10.0. To the best of my knowledge the Intel ones all work with the standard intel network drivers. You can also look at the card that Soekris (www.soekris.com) offers for t

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:32 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 23:16, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > But you shouldn't need to. The CPU responds almost instantly to load > > demands (even though the monitoring tools don't), and for the times when >

Re: [opensuse] CPU speed halved for no reason?

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 02:07 +0100, Thibaut Cousin wrote: > Hello, > > My computer is an AMD64 3200 MHz (real speed 2000 MHz) running OpenSUSE > 10.2 > x86_64. > Everything is fine, but I noticed a strange detail, I don't know how to > understand it. > > At first I had a KPowersave icon i

Re: [opensuse]

2006-12-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 14:32 -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > I have plans for an embedded server running a > VPN/Firewall/Apache/Mailserver. Would a 133MHz embedded board w/ 64MB > and a Compact Flash IDE be sufficient? Probably. We have a number of Pentium 100 boxes with 32mb mem out there d

Re: [opensuse] Suspend to ram with HP nx6125 on Suse 10.2

2006-12-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 10:59 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 08:51 +0200, Andre Truter wrote: > > After upgrading to OpenSUSE 10.2, my suspend-to-disk (hibernate) and > > resume-from-disk works on my nx6125! > > That's it, I'm starting the downlo

Re: [opensuse] Suspend to ram with HP nx6125 on Suse 10.2

2006-12-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 08:51 +0200, Andre Truter wrote: > After upgrading to OpenSUSE 10.2, my suspend-to-disk (hibernate) and > resume-from-disk works on my nx6125! That's it, I'm starting the download! > Suspend-to-Ram still seems to be a problem, it screws up the screen > and after a while just

Re: [opensuse] Suspend to ram with HP nx6125 on Suse 10.2

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 00:27 +0100, Michal Hlavac wrote: > hello, > > has anybody working suspend to ram on HP nx6125 notebook??? I have suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disc working pretty fine on my nx6125 under 10.1. It's the resume-from-ram and resume-from-disc that won't work :-) Hans -- To u

Re: [opensuse] Suse HP driver HPLIP

2006-12-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:37 -0600, M Harris wrote: > hi folks, > Does the HPLIP driver work (correctly install, function with CUPS) on > Suse > 10.0, 10.1, 10.2...? > > This driver is supposed to support well over 1k printers and supposedly > has > advanced printing features includ

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.1

2006-12-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:03 +0100, Malte Gell wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 22:08, James Knott wrote: > > Now that OpenOffice v2.1 has been released, are there any plans for a > > Novell version to follow? > > There are packages with newer versions of OOorg for SUSE Linux, but > these pack

Re: [opensuse] amavisd-upgrade

2006-12-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:30 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote: > You really don't need an rpm to upgrade amavisd-new. There are only a few > files that make the entire amavisd-new package, and those are easily > copied by hand. > The bigger part of the preparation is the check that all neccessary > requ

Re: [opensuse] amavisd-upgrade

2006-12-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:33 +0100, Michael Schueller wrote: > Hi Hans > > Do you need a newer version than this on ? > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.2/suse/i586/ > amavisd-new-2.1.2-5.1.i586.rpm Yes, that is what I have. I'd like to get support for amongst other t

[opensuse] amavisd-upgrade

2006-12-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
Does anyone know of a repo for amavisd-new for older SUSE versions? I'm not having much luck building the srpm from Anders' site on 9.2 - it needs sendmail to be installed, and the only 9.2 box I have access to is the server I want to upgrade it on. Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 Install on PPC mini MAC

2006-12-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 23:17 -0600, Tim Michals wrote: > Looks like the PCI graphics driver is not installing, no X. Is there a way > to figure this out? I loaded FC6 without issue You got further than me - I can't get my Mini thing to boot off CD! Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL P

[opensuse] Re: Video capture app - suggestion?

2006-12-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 00:50 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I'm looking for a simple gui app to capture video from either a PCI/USB > TV tuner card. Both Kino and DVGrab only seem to work with FireWire > devices. > > It needn't be fancy - just capture and be able to cut/

[opensuse] Video capture app - suggestion?

2006-12-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm looking for a simple gui app to capture video from either a PCI/USB TV tuner card. Both Kino and DVGrab only seem to work with FireWire devices. It needn't be fancy - just capture and be able tocut/copy/paste/delete parts of the captured stream. Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-12-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 00:07 +0100, jdd wrote: > I couldn't open the ext3 partition with XP. I was going to ask about that. What handles when you write to an ext3 in Windows (obviously mounted as ext2) and then go back to linux? Does it just update the journal? Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: [opensuse] openexchange

2006-12-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:30 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:08, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 05:18 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > In any case, I'd love to get away from Exchange. It would be nice to have > > > a SUSE Exch

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:07 +0100, jdd wrote: > ext2ifs Fantastic! Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:52 -0600, M Harris wrote: > How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. > > "Performance of Vista is highly dependent upon how much memory is installed > in > the PC. For Vista, the minimum is 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM And there I thought 64K was more than eno

Re: [opensuse] openexchange

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 05:18 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > In any case, I'd love to get away from Exchange. It would be nice to have a > SUSE Exchange client I could use and like. (I'm still on Exchange 5.5 so > can't use Evolution ATM.) Kai, have a look at Scalix. It's not opensource (I think it is

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 19:44 +0100, jdd wrote: > there is a very good ext2/3 native driver for XP, and it's > OSS, better use this Which one, do you have a link? Thanks Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] nice and sluggishness

2006-11-29 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:26 +0100, jdd wrote: > may be get a look at RT kernels? I'll look into that. > by the way, I use dvgrab for dv download from camcorder to > my ide disk and never have a frame loss (two years old > computer) (dvgrab have a stop on frame loss feature) What kind of output

Re: [opensuse] nice and sluggishness

2006-11-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 15:12 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > There's more to what happens in a computer than CPU usage. I/O matters, > too, as do interrupts (the mouse, like all I/O devices, being > interrupt-driven). This is probably it, thanks! > Probably it's I/O load that's slowing your sys

Re: [opensuse] nice and sluggishness

2006-11-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 00:48 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Just wondering. If I set a single process to have a nice value of -1, > and the process does not use 100% CPU, why does it make the whole > machine sluggish? > > I'm busy transferring video from VCR to my notebook

[opensuse] nice and sluggishness

2006-11-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, Just wondering. If I set a single process to have a nice value of -1, and the process does not use 100% CPU, why does it make the whole machine sluggish? I'm busy transferring video from VCR to my notebook. Mencoder is using between 60 and 80% CPU at any time, so performance is not an

Re: [opensuse] Armada M700 SuSE-10.1 display problem

2006-11-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:06 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > in Linux. If I remember correctly I used the r128 driver. I'm actually not sure now. I think it was the "ati" driver. If I remember correctly the problem was precisely that it didn't work properly with the r1

Re: [opensuse] Armada M700 SuSE-10.1 display problem

2006-11-25 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:46 +0100, Alain Barthélemy wrote: > Hi, I'm new to Linux. I just installed suse 10.1 on my old laptop, > Armada M700 and found the display problem. It's like the top part of the > screen is shown at the bottom. I tried to change the resolution, monitor > and frequency aroun

Re: [opensuse] Wireless AP or not?

2006-11-25 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 21:35 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 21:24, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > I haven't worked with any wireless print servers, but there's a good > > chance that they, like many wireless routers, don't support wireless > &

Re: [opensuse] Wireless AP or not?

2006-11-23 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:16 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 09:19, John Pierce wrote: > > Hello, I no this is probably not the best place to ask this one but here > > goes. > > > > I have network laser printer and I need to relocate it, where I am > > wanting to move it t

Re: [opensuse] Wireless

2006-11-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 23:57 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > Is anyone use any of the Intel PROWireless mini-PCI wireless cards? If so, > are > the drivers good? Yes and yes > I recently ended up with an HP nx9010 as part of payment for some work. 10.1 > runs VERY well on it, but it didn't ship w

Re: [opensuse] Goodbye and thanks for all the fishes

2006-11-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 09:08 -0500, JJ Gitties wrote: > Novell,... how to go from Godzilla to Geeko to sleeping with the > fishes in 5 easy steps. > > 1 - screw NetWare > 2 - screw exisitng customers > 3 - screw SUSE > 4 - screw Linux > 5 - Go to bed with MS You forgot that elusive last step: 6 -

Re: [opensuse] 3D With RADEON 7000

2006-11-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 05:42 -0800, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > Hi Lee! > > That's how I set it up originally. I remember checking the options > list > and it had the 'no acceleration' option set, but I did not see any way > to reverse it. > > I must have missed something? Try: init 3 sax2 -m 0=rad

Re: [opensuse] 3D With RADEON 7000

2006-11-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:14 -0800, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > I have replaced my ATI 9250 video card with a > ATI Radeon 7000 card. > > The 9250 was not working very well with my > motherboard. > > The question I have is: does the XORG driver for the > Radeon 7000 support 3D acceleration? Yes, u

Re: [opensuse] sqlgrey won't start [solved]

2006-11-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:59 -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > Because it starts normaly after boot, but not during boot. That was the > > original problem. > > init 1 > init 3 > > would test that process without a reboot per se... I suppose, but either ways takes long enough (most of these boxes are Pe

Re: [opensuse] sqlgrey won't start [solved]

2006-11-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:11 -0800, J Sloan wrote: > The excessive rebooting seems odd - why not just change runlevels, if you > really need to make sure that services start automatically? Because it starts normaly after boot, but not during boot. That was the original problem. Hans -

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:34 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > It's identifying itself as a bttv card, not ivtv. And when I do a > dmesg, I notice that the tuner is always set to 4, no matter what I do. I can't remember what card you had. But on my Zoltrix I had to specify the card and tuner at module l

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:07 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > Playing /dev/video0. > Cannot seek backward in linear streams! > Seek failed > Cannot seek backward in linear streams! Shouldn't it be mplayer tv:// ? I do (for encoding): mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576:norm=pal:input=1:

Re: [opensuse] sqlgrey won't start [solved]

2006-11-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 04:24 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 03:02 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > On Saturday 11 November 2006 23:37, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > > Does anyone know why it wouldn't start? Thanks to all who replied. After I sent my last

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 18:28 -0700, Tom Patton wrote: > haven't begun the adventure. I suspect mine is different (but hopefully > similar) since it is the NTSC/ATSC tuner... I don't see why that sould be different. The ones we get here are no different - every TV-card I've encountered could be se

Re: [opensuse] sqlgrey won't start

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 18:13 -0800, J Sloan wrote: > and what is the message when you try to start it by hand? It starts normally without any problems. That's what's messing with my head. Hans - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [opensuse] sqlgrey won't start

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 03:02 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 23:37, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Does anyone know why it wouldn't start? > > > what is the output of "chkconfig sqlgrey"? nemo:~ # chkconfig sqlgrey sqlgrey off So I d

[opensuse] sqlgrey won't start

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm seeing something weird. I maintain a fair number of mailservers at clients' sites. Some are Debian Sarge, but most are some version of SUSE from 9.1 though 10.1 as well as SLES9. On all of them I run postfix with amavisd-new and sqlgrey (http://sqlgrey.sourceforge.net/). sqlgrey ha

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 10:39 -0700, Tom Patton wrote: > I just picked up the Pinnacle PCTV HD pro stick last night...starting to > attempt it as we speak. > > Which programs are you using, version of SuSE, etc? V4L or DVB? > > Thanks! Hi Tom, I don't know if yours has the same internals as mine

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 18:57 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 09:12 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > > Hi, does anybody have any recommendations on TV cards, either ones that > > work nicely on Linux or ones you should stay away from with someone > > else's 1

Re: [opensuse] TV Cards

2006-11-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 09:12 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > Hi, does anybody have any recommendations on TV cards, either ones that > work nicely on Linux or ones you should stay away from with someone > else's 10 foot pole? I have a Pinnacle PCTV USB2 model. Needed to get one for my notebook. Works gr

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] xine/region issue?

2006-11-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:23 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > Well, the new machine seems to be largely running with minimal issues. What did you get? > I have several DVDs that are region 1, and they work fine. However, I > also have some that are region 2, and those don't want to play. When I got

Re: [opensuse] ssh to a machine, run bash with some commands, keep bash running?

2006-09-25 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 09:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > screen is great for that, but that's not quite what I'm looking for... > maybe I phrased my original post badly... > > My basic problem is that when I run: > > # bash -c 'command1;command2;command3' > > bash does those commands, then

Re: [opensuse] ssh to a machine, run bash with some commands, keep bash running?

2006-09-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 14:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to be able to do something like this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] somecommand > > Where the end result is that somecommand runs and _I am still logged in > to hostB_, running bash as if I had done these commands:

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