Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad (SOLVED)

2007-05-01 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard: > - how on earth did you know that?? > - where should I have looked to find that myself... > If you know that it is a synaptics touchpad, you can look in its manual: "man synaptics". There you can find the "TouchpadOff"-option, which can be set

Re: [opensuse] Synaptics touchpad, how to get rid of

2007-05-01 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard: > Hi list, > > - I've got a laptop with SuSE10.2 and this stupid touchpad, a > synaptics thing. I want to switch it off. > I tried commenting it out in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it seems to > driven by somthing so low (a module somewhere) that this

Re: [opensuse] XGL and Radeon X1300

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2007 16:39 schrieb Dotty Pixel: > XGL isn't working with my Radeon X1300, meaning I can't do the effects > such as the desktop cube and 3D games. I've been looking around on the > ATI website, and I found a driver for Linux, but it still doesn't seem > to be working after the d

Re: [opensuse] Download ATI drivers the same way as nvidia. Is it possible?

2006-12-08 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 10:14 schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea: > Moreover, do the ATI binary-blob drivers even work for 10.2, > considering they suport X.org 7.1 and SUSE has X.org 7.2? > No, they dont. If you have an ATI card lower than X1000, you should choose the opensource radeon driver. If yo

Re: [opensuse] Configuring Dual Head Mode on a laptop

2006-12-05 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 14:39 schrieb Matthias Hopf: > How should that ever be possible, except for a real dualhead > environment (with different contents on both screens)? You're > obviously running clone mode. > No, i can confirm Rylans problem, because i have the same, but in 10.1 (10.2 doe

Re: [opensuse] Just Perhaps

2006-11-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 3. November 2006 00:51 schrieb Intrusion Detection Account 000: > The next , after Vista O/S Microsoft will be fogging will be Linux > based - as for open source - we will all need to watch very carefully > Scott This wouldnt be new. Maybe some of you could remember of some Windows (

Re: [opensuse] AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

2006-11-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 3. November 2006 00:54 schrieb David Canar: > 3. Microsoft is telling everybody that if they want to use Linux they > support SUSE Linux! Muhaha! THIS really is an advantage! Its like G.W.Bush is recommending to invest in iranian nuclear technology... -

Re: [opensuse] AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

2006-11-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 3. November 2006 00:42 schrieb SOTL: > This is verification that even MS thinks its new operating system is > crap. Written with an stoneage-old mozilla thunderbird on windows in an outlook way of quoting. And now something about seriousity...

Re: [opensuse] ASUS A8V-MX

2006-10-24 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006 23:32 schrieb Marcel de Reuver: > Whit this boot option the SATA disk is still not recognized by > Opensuse 10.1 On this hardware I can install Ubuntu 6.06.1 whitout any > problem. Oh, my fault: I've not read your post carefully: In my case SUSE 10.1 should be instal

Re: [opensuse] ASUS A8V-MX

2006-10-24 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Dienstag, 24. Oktober 2006 15:36 schrieb Marcel de Reuver: > Is it correct that Opensuse does not install on an ASUS A8V-MX with > VIA VT8251 South Bridge chipset. When I install Opensuse the SATA > drive is not recognized. > > What can I do to correct this? > Thanks for your input. I've had th

Re: [opensuse] Re: Reply-To decision by vote

2006-08-16 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 17:19 schrieb Bernhard Walle: > > Well, you overstate. The users can till use the list, just with a > _little_ handwork. Since most new users don't write tens of articles > in mailinglists each day, this should not be much problem. For me its the same like a newspaper

Re: [opensuse] Reply-To decision by vote

2006-08-16 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 14. August 2006 23:27 schrieb Kenneth Schneider: > Yes you are trusted, at least by me. My vote is for the list to _not_ > add the reply to. Let the people using a broken client contact the > programmers and have them fix the client program. This is the arrogant elite-behaviour which is

Re: [opensuse] Flashplayer in Susie10.1

2006-08-16 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 11. August 2006 18:31 schrieb jim tate: > I got on Foxnews and watching news videos (first time) and the > following days when trying to watch news videos in > Firefox/flashplayer, I can't get the videos to display, but I can get > audio, very clear. > I also tried the same thing in Fed

Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenSUSE Forum Discussion

2006-01-30 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 22:37 schrieb Peter Flodin: > And what better way to unify two parties than creating a third option > that competes with them, we might end up with a forum.opensuse.org and > the rest putting their differences aside and reunifying and competing > with the "official". No

Re: [opensuse] Analysis of forum use of other Linux Distros.

2006-01-30 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Hi all, this discussion (and all the other discussions regarding this topic) seems to come directly from the european parlament: Very very much noise with very very small results. If all decisions around SUSE would be managed this way, we would have now SUSE 0.9 beta. I am reading mailing list

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 using apt?

2006-01-06 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 14:49 schrieb Christoph Thiel: > So, if you don't like smart-gui in it's current state, could you > please share your dislikes -- otherwise it might never get better. I > guess Gustavo will be happy to get feedback on SMART. Yes, you're right, only nagging is not a good

Re: [opensuse] Upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 using apt?

2006-01-05 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2006 22:33 schrieb Richard Bos: > Perhaps apt can still be > provided via the online repository (not on the CDs) as a fallback in > case SMART does not performs as expected...? This is an idea which i can support, even if its for another reason: I prefer to work with a m

Re: [opensuse] emailaddress normal suse mailinglist

2005-12-21 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 16:55 schrieb Peter Matthies: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is for the german Suse-List. If Jan wants to read the english list, the address should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] regards, Jens - To uns

Re: [opensuse] ftp4

2005-12-11 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2005 22:49 schrieb ajtiM: > OK, before twenty minutes was okay but manytimes i cannot connect and > what is worse? I connected, choose files for updtae and that i got a > message that files are not on the server. First: If you have problems with your connection, why dont

Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 10:18 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > The question is: What can we take down from the distro instead? I > don't want to go to another CD... Gnome. ;-> SCNR, Jens - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse] Request for Codenames for SUSE Linux 10.1, 10.2

2005-11-23 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 08:56 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg: > Stop this stupid thread now. > We were not talking about human desire or sehnsucht, but about NAZI > music and symbols. > Hi, i think you are stuck on an old prejudice. Rammstein is a band which for sure has made some lyrics wit

Re: [opensuse] Kicker crash

2005-10-28 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 07:52 schrieb Damian Mihai Liviu: > Hi, > > For about 3 days I have a problem. Every time I shutdown or reboot my > computer using K-Menu -> Log out Kicker is crashing. Here is my > backtrace output: > This is a known bug since KDE 3.4.x http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [opensuse] Two first looks at SuSE 10.0 - link

2005-10-20 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 01:38 schrieb Iznogood: > One of the guys (Alan Canton) is president of a software consulting > company, yet he seems unable to read the what is written on a webpage, > nor use google for 3 minutes. He was clever enough not to leave a mail > address or he would have

Re: [opensuse] transparent term

2005-10-17 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2005 12:38 schrieb Francesco Scaglioni: > Hi, > > Which transparent terminal is favoured on open 10. I had been > running wterm on 9.1 for some time but it seems to have been > replaced. With X.org 6.8.x and KDE since 3.4.x you can make whole parts of KDE transparent. But

Re: [opensuse] Retail-Packages arrived?!

2005-10-03 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 08:30 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > Please read my announcement on opensuse-announce with the roadmap. Even when it sounds like a lame excuse, exactly this mail didnt arrive me. And because i didnt suppose missing mails in the announce-list, i didnt make a search in the a

Re: [opensuse] Retail-Packages arrived?!

2005-10-03 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 08:30 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > Please read my announcement on opensuse-announce with the roadmap. A roadmap is (for me) a summary of more or less flexible dates and not a bible. So i'm missing an actual statement in the List or at the opensuse-website like "Release-CD

Re: [opensuse] Would like to distinguish between apps running as root and other apps

2005-10-03 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 13:51 schrieb Johannes Kastl: > Better would be a different color scheme, like the root-konsole has > (the yellow scheme). Better (IMHO) would be closing root-apps if the reason to login as root is nonexistend anymore. But i'm such a lazy guy too, sometimes ;) But its

[opensuse] Retail-Packages arrived?!

2005-10-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Hi all, did i miss something? In the german SuSE-Mailinglist are the first questions asked by people, who already got their retail-packages of SuSE 10.0 yesterday. Why do we have still an openSuSE 10.0 _RC1_ and no Release anywhere in the net? Or where are the announcement, that the beta is ov

Re: [opensuse] Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org

2005-09-30 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 13:04 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > Make that "opensuse-flamewars". That way at least the name will fit. Even if some discussions about OpenSource vs. ClosedSource or packages are going into flamewars, there are also many discussions with a serious background.

Re: [opensuse] Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org

2005-09-28 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Hi All, i would suggest to set up another list named "opensuse-philosophy" or "opensuse-politics" or similar. This list should then hold discussions about things like the spelling of opensuse, licensing, packages which are in or out, OpenSurce vs. ClosedSource and such things. kind regards, J

Re: [opensuse] WLAN, SuSE 9.2

2005-09-06 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag 05 September 2005 05:33 schrieb Don: > Hi all, I'm having difficulty installing a Broadcom BCM4306 wireless > modem in my Gateway M520CS. I copied the bcmwl5.sys & .inf files to > /tmp/driver/. did an 'ndiswrapper -i /tmp/driver/bcmwl5.inf and saw > that ndiswrapper needed the .sys file

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10 System requirements etc..

2005-09-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Freitag 02 September 2005 20:17 schrieb Jonathan Lutz: > I have a old 600mhz Pentium system with around 400mb of RAM.. is this > enough to crisply run SuSE 10 (w/ GUI) or should I just go ahead and > install it in one of my newer systems? I'de rather install it in my > 600mhz system (convienence

[opensuse] OT: Again some moaning (was: Ahain a new version of makeSUSEdvd)

2005-08-30 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Hi Winston, would you please set your mail programm to a more common line length like maybe 73? It would greatly enhance the readability of your mails, at least the part which you've cited from other mails. Thanks, Jens - To