Re: [opensuse] Talking about Linux usage.....this in from Lightscribe.

2008-01-25 Thread John Layt
On Friday 25 January 2008, Mike wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 20:08, Fred A. Miller wrote: LightScribe is just starting support for Linux, and we apologize for the limited support. At this point, the only applications available for Linux are the LightScribe Simple Labeler and LaCie

Re: [opensuse] Problems with KDE-4.0

2008-01-16 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 13 January 2008, Frank Fiene wrote: I've installed version 4.0 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4/openSUSE_10.3/ but main programs don't work. So there is no Kmail, kopete has no services, i cannot scan my music files with amarok on a network drive. Amarok

Re: [opensuse] asus Eee mini laptop

2008-01-12 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 12 January 2008, James Tremblay wrote: Hey guys Anybody try to get opensuse running on one of these yet? I want to try getting SLED on one. Any thoughts? JT No, not yet, I haven't heard of any efforts over at eeeuser.com, nor do I have the time to play to make it happen.  I'm

Re: [opensuse] USB Scanner recommendation?

2007-11-22 Thread John Layt
On Thursday 22 November 2007, Lenz Grimmer wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and is still on sale (especially in Europe/Germany)? Almost anything from HP will be supported, except

Re: [opensuse] Asus eee

2007-11-15 Thread John Layt
On Thursday 15 November 2007, G T Smith wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: It's late and I'm probably confused but if there's a driver for one Linux version doesn't it work for all? GPL and all that. Or at least ABI compatibility. Curiously, Dave I would suspect the modules concerned to be

Re: [opensuse] Asus eee

2007-11-14 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, G T Smith wrote: Considering that the machine comes with Xandros preinstalled and has a rather special hardware setup; which I would assume that this copy of Xandros is optimised for, and ASUS are committed to to support; I would wonder why anyone would want to

[opensuse] Asus eee

2007-11-13 Thread John Layt
So, anyone tried putting 10.3 on an Asus eee yet? Does it work without much hacking? I'm thinking of going with a KDE4 only install :-) John. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] libdvdcss gone?

2007-10-26 Thread John Layt
On Friday 26 October 2007, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: Hi List, After spending lots of money for David Gilmour's new dvd I realised that I can't find libdvdcss to install. I have the Packman sources added in YaST and also googled a while, no luck. You need the vlc repository for that. If in

Re: [opensuse] subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

2007-10-08 Thread John Layt
On Monday 08 October 2007, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Why on earth is this not included in the default out of the box installation? Why on earth isn't it in Packman, VLC, or anther community repository with all the other slightly dodgy packages? DeCSS, Codecs, MP3, all things that are clearly

Re: [opensuse] Kino

2007-10-08 Thread John Layt
On Monday 08 October 2007, Bob wrote: In 10.2 I used to use kino for video editing, but I can't find it in the OSS/non-OSS/Packman repositories for 10.3. Anyone know where I could find it, or another, similar program? -- Bob Not sure where it has gone, but you could try kdenlive in Packman,

Re: [opensuse] Community repositories URL in 10.3

2007-10-07 Thread John Layt
On Friday 05 October 2007, Christian Hoffmann wrote: Hi all, I upgraded from Factory to 10.3 and I wanted to try out the new Community Repositories in yast. But it gives me: No product URL defined to download list of repositories from. Where do I enter the URL and what would it look like?

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.3

2007-10-07 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 06 October 2007, James Knott wrote: I've just installed SUSE 10.3 on one computer and so far it looks nice and seems faster than 10.2. I also tried that KDE 4 preview. Yuck!!! I certainly hope that's not what KDE 4 is supposed to look like. It's terrible!!! Anything in

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.3

2007-10-07 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 06 October 2007, Adam Jimerson wrote: I know, I loaded up kmahjongg and it looks ugly for the most part. Other wise I do like openSUSE 10.3, good job build team and anyone else who worked on this release. Ugly? How so? As in the artwork for the tiles (which you can switch)? Or

Re: [opensuse] Kstars in 10.3?

2007-10-07 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 07 October 2007, James Knott wrote: Is Kstars available in OpenSUSE 10.3? I can't seem to find it. tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org KDE3 version works fine here. Install kdeedu3 from the Main OSS repository. Running 4 from svn, s can't comment on that.

Re: [opensuse] Laptop embedded Webcam

2007-09-30 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Andrés Cosa wrote: uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26). uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5). There's the root of the problem, the camera is not initialising, so no app will work. You need to visit the uvc driver website

Re: [opensuse] Laptop embedded Webcam

2007-09-30 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 30 September 2007, John Layt wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007, Andrés Cosa wrote: uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26). uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5). There's the root of the problem, the camera is not initialising, so no app

Re: [opensuse] What USB Webcamera to use with OpenSUSE10.2 ?

2007-09-09 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote: I picked up a Logitech Quickcam Chat recently at a very reasonable cost, and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well. Joe I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which

[opensuse] Xephyr, xauth, etc, under 10.3

2007-09-04 Thread John Layt
Hi, I'm having a few issues getting Xephyr working on 10.3 for my KDE4 development environment. Here's what I'm doing: sudo xhost +local:kde-devel su - kde-devel Xephyr :1 -screen 1024x768 export DISPLAY=:1 bin/startkde Which gets me: AUDIT: Tue Sep 4 19:40:14 2007: 18007

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 02 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: This window is not movable and obscures other ICONS. If you single click on the window (well popup really) it goes away but it carries on working in the background. Double click the system tray icon to show the status again. When it finishes

Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: Why is it necessary to build a new database of patches every time I choose another YaST s/w function? The delays waiting to update or pick a new package are quite a time hit. Even if these processes just completed and I leave YaST an

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-19 Thread John Layt
--- Benji Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes the version of libzypp in factory/svn is currently pretty broken, and does indeed cause this behaviour. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301676 and I see you filed https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301682 _ Benjamin

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-19 Thread John Layt
Some new zypper/libzypp/yast2 packages uploaded today (along with a 1000 others), installed with rpm -Uvh but still broken... So stay well away from that upgrade button :-) John. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] 10.3 Beta 2 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-18 Thread John Layt
Hi, Been messing around with beta 1 for the last couple of days evaluating it as a replacement for my ailing Kubuntu system, mostly works well, runs fast. However I managed to hose my test install 3 times today while trying to upgrade packages using Yast. I may be totally wrong in this, seeing

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 2 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-18 Thread John Layt
! Also, the full error message when the delete fails makes it clear that it is an rpm error from trying to remove the actual package files. John. --- John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up to this morning, Yast would happily apply upgrades as rpm upgrades. After applying the latest Yast version

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-18 Thread John Layt
Yeah, i hit the libzypper problem too. First couple of times too many things had been deleted to be salvageable so had to full reinstall. Next 2 times was able to rescue it, first by downloading and installing libzypper, second by compiling and installing libbz2 from source. I've been trawling