RE: [opensuse] Lost rpm db?

|-Original Message- |From: Anders Norrbring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |I have a problem.. |One of my machines (10.2) lost its installed rpm database.. |So, when I do a 'rpm -qa' it shows only 2 packages.. | |How can I rebuild it accurately? rpm --rebuilddb See /var/lib/rpm/* for all the

RE: [opensuse] Personal Weather Stations

| Greg Freemyer wrote on 24. jan 2008 19:07: |Okay Enthusiasts, | |I'm new to weather stations, so tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. |Anyway these are my thoughts: | Hi I have a LaCrosse ws2350 connected to opensuse10.2 box. Using the enclosed usb-serial adaptor. The enclosed software was just

RE: [opensuse] ESATA

Thanks Roger I'll test out and report back to mailinglist -- MortenB |-Original Message- |From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 7. desember 2007 10:32 |To: opensuse@opensuse.org |Subject: RE: [opensuse] ESATA | |On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:54 +0100, Morten Bjør

RE: [opensuse] ESATA

|-Original Message- |From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |My system has 4 removable SATA disks. So I have a udev rule to |mount them in a predictable way, no matter which of the 4 are |really present. I little question on the side: My problem is If I leave the esata conne

RE: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited

|-Original Message- |From: nordi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 3. desember 2007 19:36 |To: suse |Subject: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited | |The current version of openSuse 10.3 easily outscores the GM version. Tanks for the update,Nordi, maye it is time to try 10.3 t

RE: [opensuse] Problem install 10.2 64 bit, blank screen.

|-Original Message- |From: Arie Reynaldi Z [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 13. juni 2007 06:12 |To: opensuse@opensuse.org |Subject: [opensuse] Problem install 10.2 64 bit, blank screen. | |Hi All, | |I got a probelm during installation opensuse 10.2 64 bit in |AMD Athlon 64. After I choo

RE: [opensuse] Need libcrypto.

libcrypto is part of openssl $ rpm -qal --filesbypkg | grep libcrypto openssl /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a openssl-devel /usr/lib64/libcrypto.a openssl-devel /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so /usr/lib64/libcrypto.a /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so openssl

RE: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

|-Original Message- |I understand you have to be careful with xfs. When there are |large number of files being used, xfs caches a lot of the |data. I read somewhere, that xfs under heavy load will lock up |sometimes and use all your memory up. | Maybe that was a fact years ago with im

[opensuse] zypper enable/disable

--+-+-+--+-+--- 1 | No | No | YUM | | How is this done via zypper on the commandline? just switching the flag. Only way I found working was deleting them, then adding them with -d zypper sd zypper sa -d Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik Oslo, Norway N�r��y隊Z

RE: [opensuse] What's the point with 64 bit [OT]

|-Original Message- |From: eshsf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> powerPC had some logic which made it possible to crunch two |32bit numbers simultaineously. |> resulting is some really impressive openssl performance. | |I don't know PowerPC in detail, but is it the one by Altivec(SIMD)? |

RE: [opensuse] What's the point with 64 bit

|64bit CPUs are faster when working with large integers (which |is not that frequent I presume), and they are a must when your |application needs >3GB of memory. No other advantages here. | Recent cpu-cores have greatly simplified pipleines compared to pentium4,powerPC, etc. the cores in core2d

RE: [opensuse] Software Updater - Error

|eddieleprince wrote: |> Every time I start KDE I get the following error message. It |has just |> started happening in the last week or so. Anyone has any thoughts? |> (openSUSE 10.2, KDE Release 3.5.5 "release 45.4", kernel |> 2.6.18.8-0.2-default) | |SuSE 10.2 has problems with the YaST onl

RE: [opensuse] Update Server - Very OT!!

TTL? Just measure a wget download of a specific file from varous sources and choose the one with the lowest latency. This can be done in 50 lines of scripting. The testing time is saved by the first download. -- Morten Bjørnsvik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] USB 2.0 external hard drives

|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 FAT32 for all our external |drives too, but we are initiating the process of deciding if |we want to go to EXT2 or NTFS for the future. |

RE: [opensuse] bashrc

|From: Vince Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |I would like to set some aliases in .bashrc that shall do some |usefull things like: | |alias al="echo $PATH | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} {for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) |print $i}'" | | |This alias in not executed. How to define such aliases? | You need execution quo

RE: [opensuse] Converting file system

|-Original Message- |From: John Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |I have seen a lot of traffic on other lists concerning the xfs |file system and random lockups caused by it. As posted |earlier, I have already converted the /home, /var, and /tmp |partitions to ext3 and the problems see

RE: [opensuse] beagle again - was: Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0(reiser)

|From: John O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |We had to disable beagle indexing to prevent it hogging CPU time. | The priority of beagle-indexing must be completely wrong it should be nice -19 It has been discussed before, but why is mono apps running with high priority? Everything else hangs

RE: [opensuse] Flash based sound is sloooooooow in some cases... trying to discover why

|-Original Message- |From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 19. april 2007 09:01 |> The sad reality is linux flash version is substandard to windows |> especially in interfacing the hardware. | |H I wonder if Adobe has any info on this? Like I said, |not that important, b

RE: [opensuse] Flash based sound is sloooooooow in some cases... trying to discover why

|-Original Message- |From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 18. april 2007 07:00 |My partner was toying with an online Flash based chat room |thing yesterday (paid membership only so not practical to send |people there, she was using a friend's paid account). It has |video and

RE: [opensuse] kernel updates

|-Original Message- |From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Well, "rpm -i" of the kernel works for openSUSE 10.2 and SLES |10 too in this regard. | |What does Redhats automated updater do? | I was unsure so I tested it on a not updated system with default up2date config: (I

RE: [opensuse] kernel updates

|From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |All other distros do the same as far as I know. |Care to give an example where this is not the case? On our RHEL production systems we download the kernel and then install them via 'rpm -i ' Then it leaves both kernels bootable via grub. The new "

RE: [opensuse] DVD Installation using Sony device

|From: Rui Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> Can you explain more? Does this mean to use a special |installation CD |> and then some how redirect6 to a 10.2 DVD? |> | |Yes. That was the only way I managed to install openSUSE... I |also had a problem with the ata_piix driver recognizing my

RE: [opensuse] installing from usb on old laptop

|From: jdd |Subject: Re: [opensuse] installing from usb on old laptop : |install can be done from two files : linux and initrd from the |/boot/.. of any suse install cd (real place depends of distro |version) and any grub boot media (floppy...) | |so the problem is to copy these files first to t

RE: [opensuse] Abit BP6 won't install SuSE v9.2 through 10.2

|From: Larry Stotler |Subject: [opensuse] Abit BP6 won't install SuSE v9.2 through 10.2 : |I've got an old Abit BP6 Dual Celeron motherboard. I know |that at one point in time I had SuSE running on it(v9.1 I |think) with 2 Celeron 400Mhz processors. Recently, I dug it |out and decided to

RE: [opensuse] installing from usb on old laptop

|From: Russell Jones |Subject: Re: [opensuse] installing from usb on old laptop | |Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: |> Do anyone knows how to boot the suse10.2 internet |installation image via usb or any other option? |> New harddisk and broken cd-rom player |> |> I do not seem to get to

[opensuse] installing from usb on old laptop

spent a long time getting proper hardware support, shutdown hang, hibernation wrong etc. Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik, Oslo, Norway

RE: [opensuse] Backup to Landisk

|From: edwin |In my LAN there is a Landisk with ip address and smb service. |I try to backup my file to this Landisk by mounting it and |then use tar. When I browse it through the M$ Windows machine |the backup file name is good, but when I ls to /mnt/landisk |there is strange character and I

RE: [opensuse] Hint: ZMD Eating CPU/Disc

|All I need to do now, is work out why ZMD takes so flipping |long to install patches regardless of it's NICEness... (come |back YaST, all is forgiven !) Mono is the root to all evil. I had the same problem with beagle. 100% cpu load when it indexes. I find it strange because all indexing Shou

RE: [opensuse] Downgrading gcc

|-Original Message- |From: Adrian Vraciu |It depends wat version of gcc you want. Generally, is not a |good idea to downgrade the compiler because the binaries from |your system are compiled with the gcc that comes with the |system. So, if you downgrade the gcc you could experience |pr

RE: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

|From: Fred A. Miller |Subject: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!! | |When Michael Dell took back the reins of he company he |founded, one of the first things he did was to launch the |feedback site Dell Idea Storm. |Following up on the recent Slashdot discussion of the early |res

RE: [opensuse] Beryl and xgl

|From: Hans van der Merwe |Sent: 26. februar 2007 09:03 |Yes, but does Xgl allow other GL apps (who needs direct rendering, ie |GoogleEarth) to run smoothly? In GoogleEarth most menus are black until I move the mouse over. But everything works smoothly. It is not much of a problem. Xgl only do th

[opensuse] MTBF was: Re: About Backing Up

|From: Kai Ponte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:44:33 pm Joachim Schrod wrote: |> John Andersen wrote: |> > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: |> >> There really is a reason that SCSI costs more in general, and HP |> >> uses good SCSI drives on top o

[opensuse] Xgl/Compiz desktop focus

compiz-extra-0.3.7-5.1 compiz-0.3.7-12.2 gnome-compiz-preferences-070106-6.1 gnome-compiz-preferences-extra-070106-5.1 compiz-kde-0.3.7-12.2 Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experian-Scorex AS, PB 121, 0102 Oslo, Norway -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: [opensuse] LAPACK/BLAS

|-Original Message- |From: Leonardo Andres Espinosa Leal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 18. februar 2007 05:46 |Thanks for the help... | |I'm using g95 fortran compiler, but I have problem with the |instalation of LAPACK and BlAS using it. I don not know the |reason, but I can not t

RE: [opensuse] Printer issues

|From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [opensuse] Printer issues | |On Tue February 13 2007 5:51 am, Richard wrote: |> Epson Color Photo RX600, test prints fine, with colors, but |output for |> every print job has solid black for all colors and |grayscale. What am |> I mis

[opensuse] udev and xfs

Hi Do anyone know how to change /etc/udev.conf and /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules so any usbdisk with xfs mounts automounts as the one below % cat /etc/mtab | grep sdc1 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk xfs rw,noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 0 0 Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik, Oslo, Norway -- To

RE: [opensuse] New version of KomodoEdit

|-Original Message- |From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 29. januar 2007 16:51 |To: opensuse@opensuse.org |Subject: Re: [opensuse] New version of KomodoEdit | |> Turns out ActiveState's KomodoEdit4 (new version of Komodo Personal) |> will be free: |> http://www.ac

[opensuse] New version of KomodoEdit

Hi Turns out ActiveState's KomodoEdit4 (new version of Komodo Personal) will be free: http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/get_edit.plex -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] verify unicode/utf-8 fonts

Hi Is there an easy way to verify which font are unicode/utf-8 from command line without actually loading in the font? You can set encoding to 'uni' in xfontsel and see which fonts are unicode when choosing family. Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik Experian-Scorex AS, PB 121, 0102 Os

RE: [opensuse] fusesmb, how does it work?

|-Original Message- |From: Verner Kjærsgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 18. desember 2006 07:55 |To: opensuse@opensuse.org |Subject: Re: [opensuse] fusesmb, how does it work? | |> > Can someone enlighten me, please... |> > |> > How do I use the darn thing?? |> > I need to mount my sm

RE: [opensuse] Thanks and Screen Resolution Problem!

|-Original Message- |From: John Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 18. desember 2006 06:43 |To: SuSE Linux |Subject: [opensuse] Thanks and Screen Resolution Problem! | |Under Sax2 the system correctly identifies the driver needed and the |17 inch wide screen, I am able to set it to 14

RE: [opensuse] Thanks...and...

|-Original Message- |From: Michael Comperchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Oh yeh...whilst I'm at it How come, even though I've |created the aliases with ndiswrapper -m, I still have to open |a term and execute modprobe ndiswrapper? | Just add the aliases from ndiswrapper to /etc/modp

RE: [opensuse] Internet Repository not updated

|> 'Internet Installation Repository' is still 10.1 May8th |> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source and |> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-source | |> Could someone @opensuse.org please update it, so the mirrors can |synch |> it. |This was

[opensuse] Internet Repository not updated

Hi 'Internet Installation Repository' is still 10.1 May8th http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source and http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-inst-source Could someone @opensuse.org please update it, so the mirrors can synch it. Thanks