Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 07:05 +, James Ogley wrote: Hmmm, the poster has a history of hopping around distro mailing lists and asking strange questions. Why, only this month he was interested in switching to FVWM on Gentoo. He's hit the Fedora list, Mandrake's Cooker list and the Debian

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:12 -0600, M Harris wrote: Do you really want a survey (as in scientific statistical sampling) or are you *yet again* trolling for a KDE vs Gnome flame war??? I like learning to develop small programs. I hate switching distribution for small reasons. I try to decide

Re: [opensuse] Problem updating opensuse 1.02 with opensuseupdater

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 08:19 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Error Couldn't restore Download metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh. I also had added packman repos to my sources, then the system told me some software updates are available, then when

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:55 +, Peter Bradley wrote: /etc/init.d/svnserve start returned 2 (invalid or excess arguments): Starting svnserve ..failed Well, some RPM based distributions, like Fedora also suggest to leave svcnserve inetd launched. Does anyone know what's going on, and what I

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 04:14 -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: just subversion in apache with ssl and all will be fine. There is an annoying fashion these days, consisting of making almost all things through http-related ports: Webmail (instead of using IMAP/SMTP ports), and so on... (I wont

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Thursday 25 January 2007 16:01, M Harris: Have you played around with tcl/tk yet...? Tk, yes with Python. Why? -- -- Mihamina -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Problem updating opensuse 1.02 with opensuseupdater

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Thursday 25 January 2007 20:29, Erik Jakobsen: Also have a look at the subject Updating X.org to 7.2, it's a close problem. Think You mean it should be able to find here in the list ? Yes. -- -- Mihamina -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] network setting or Xen setting?

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I have a laptop, VT CPU, on which I would like to launch Full virtuallization. I am running Suse 10.2. My network is about a wifi modem, DHCP. The main interface is eth1, the wifi one. I dont use the wired interface at all for the moment. xend-config.sxp is already setup with netdev=eth1. dom0

[opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, Just after DVD installation, I switched to internet repositories. Then I added Packman repositories. Say I want to install aMule (from packman). One problem is the time spent before installation is complete. When launching the software installation tool, it builds a kind of installable

Re: [opensuse] Updating X.org to 7.2

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:46 -0500, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh. I encountered the same error. I deleted the source, replaced it by another, retried, then it was OK.

Re: [opensuse] .wmf and .wmv files

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:20 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: Is there a plugin that will let Linuxers display these files? If you use the packman repo, Mplayer reads them. You can also install Mencoder + JMencode then encode the wmv to mpeg or better, ogg/theora. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:02 +0100, Lennart Börjeson wrote: Well, you could disable update/refresh for the stable distribution Would you help me to find out where to check/uncheck this? I did not find... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hi

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 22:27 -0700, John Meyer wrote: Whatever your preference is. It's not a preference issue... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains KDE and K*/Qt* apps in OpenSuSe? In other words, as _open_Suse is an almost

Re: [opensuse] xen cannot allocate memory

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 04:56 +0100, jan kalcic wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 17776641769308 8356 0 16288 673308 Swap: 6626728606626668 Whne I create a (256M RAM, 1 vcpu)

[opensuse] Linux kernel kvm and Xen (Was: [Xen-users] Using Xen from within VMWare)

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
for KVM, when they merged the new fast mmu branch, they also broke Xen. Thanks for the info. Do you know if they have fixed anything in any bleeding edge versions, or is this likely to remain broken in the name of speed? Fedora fixed the documentation building: It was pretty broken in

[opensuse] suse firewall settings for Xen

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to setup a firewall for Xen, because: When I install an OS, in Full Virtualizaton mode, it cannot received any DHCP lease. I give you my configuration as attached file. I run Xen on my laptop. I access the Internet via a DHCP modem-router. The used interface is eth1 I already

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
- it's true that you can install whatever you want but after a while the installs/unistall makes your system very unstable. Many of my friends complain that they have to reinstall the whole system frequently (2-4 times a year). Some major Linux updates are painfull. I remember a hard FC3 -

[opensuse] Xen-opensuse_10.2-SDL keymap workaround

2007-01-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I have to install an OS in full virtualization mode (I have VT CPU). During installation, network is not up yet. My Linux distribution, openSuSe 10.2, uses Xen 3.0.3 and SDL 1.2.11. I use SDL console/monitor to perform the domU installation. The problem is keyboard is messed up. My azerty

[opensuse] [Xen] how to setup domU network?

2007-01-19 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi all, I am quite new to Xen, but a bit used with Linux in general. I just wonder how to setup domU network. I use the Xen embeded in opensuse 10.2. My real network, without any Xen consideration is about one desktop and one laptop, behind a modem-router that NATs too. The modem-router-NATer

[opensuse] critical bug: unmet openoffice dependency (gail and atk-bridge)

2007-01-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, On a default and fresh 10.2 install, I get opanoffice not launched because of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ oowriter Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gail: libgail.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module

[opensuse] 10.2, Xen, Full Virtualization, SDL (rpm -aq request)

2007-01-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, How many of you has the SDL Window opening up with Xen? I am running a quasi default 10.2 installation, with the embeded Xen and Xen kernel, on a nvidia hardware (only Xorg free driver, no proprietary), and I only ONCE have the SDL Window appreaing. Would those who has the SDL apprearing send

Re: [opensuse] [solved] critical bug: unmet openoffice dependency (gail and atk-bridge)

2007-01-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpm -aq gail gail-1.9.3-17 Must install gail-32bit (I am running x86_64) It should be forced by the installer... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Xen, 10.2, SDL keyboard messed up

2007-01-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I have a French layed out keyboard, but make an english domU Debian installation. I have to provide some things manually, such as hostname and passwords. The problem is the keyboard is completely messed up: in the VM SDL Window, it becomes a kind of qwerty-mixed-with-anything layout. I may

[opensuse-factory] switch from 10.2 to Factory

2007-01-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to switch to Factory because I cannot make the SDL window to appear. I am not sure it's a bug, I am just going to see if it's better on a development version. I dont use non-OSS except for my Centrino's Wifi. It should be OK to switch. What I did is I added SL-OSS-Factory and

Re: [opensuse] Xen, where is the separate window the virtual system is running on?

2007-01-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
once you start the install of a VM an xterm console window should open up There is no. But I noticed: - vnc* are set to 0 in the vm configuration file. - sdl =1 in the same file, so its nice. for the VM and the installation of suse in the vm should start. Have you configured the install

Re: [opensuse] Xen, where is the separate window the virtual system is running on?

2007-01-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:19 +, David Bottrill wrote: Do you have a host machine that is capable of VT not Paravirtualisation ? I do. Well, anyway thank you for your answers, I will look at this problem deeper alone then come back if still blocked... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[opensuse] Xen, where is the separate window the virtual system is running on?

2007-01-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I use Yast to setup a new virtual machine. Once I have configrured the virtual machine, there is a Yast popup telling me: The virtual machine installation should now be running in a separate window. When the installation has completed, click 'Continue' to finalize

[opensuse] how to add repository?

2007-01-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to know how is the way to add new internet source of software after having deleted CDRom sources. I would like to have acces to the non-oss repo through Yast. I read http://en.opensuse.org/Add_Package_Repositories_to_YaST but one question still remain: What URI should I provide? I

[opensuse] Desktop effects on Nvidia but with a Xen kernel

2007-01-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to know if you have any solution to tell me on how to enable desktop effects on a -xen kernel. I found how to enable it on -default kernel and nvidia card. But first of my problem, I did not find no driver for the -xen kernel. The goal, for me is to use it for demonstration

Re: [opensuse] Desktop effects on Nvidia but with a Xen kernel

2007-01-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
I would like to know if you have any solution to tell me on how to enable desktop effects on a -xen kernel. Afaik, graphical display is not possible with xen-3.0.3. It's not even possible to compile nvidia driver on a Xen kernel. It exit with a cute error message telling so. Did you tried