Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Azerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like the BETA4 sync had begon. > ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/vol/5/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta4 > > Am I crazy or is this the official release of beta4? That's 10.0 not 10.1 - don't know why the have something that old... Btw. Beta4 mirror s

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Btw. Beta4 mirror sync has not really started, so far only the directory structure exists and therefore Beta4 will get announced tomorrow - with lots of rough edges :-( Is it only the beta4 CDs, or factory as well? Or I can use factory today and download beta4 CD

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Peter Czanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Btw. Beta4 mirror sync has not really started, so far only the >> directory structure exists and therefore Beta4 will get announced >> tomorrow - with lots of rough edges :-( >> > Is it only the beta4 CDs, or factory as

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Factory on our server is now updated with the new packages. As I still can't reach stage, so I would like to ask one more hint: ftp.opensuse.org and ftp.gwdg.de have some differences. Which one is right? So, you have to do a new installation. I always do. My

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Azerion
> That's 10.0 not 10.1 - don't know why the have something that old... > > Btw. Beta4 mirror sync has not really started, so far only the > directory structure exists and therefore Beta4 will get announced > tomorrow - with lots of rough edges :-( > > Andreas Sorry, was up all night (fresh install

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta4 is delayed...

2006-02-17 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI: We have found some showstoppers and need some more time to fix > them, so Beta4 is at least a day late... We're mostly done, now we need to fill the mirrors ... Announcement of Beta4 is planned for saturday afternoon (UTC). Andreas -- Andreas

[opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Hi, as usually everbody is complaing about the betas I just wanted to tell you, that I like the new boot theme very much :-) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 -

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Marcus, On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:06:35PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > There will be an interface between 3rd party vendors and Novell to > provide kernel modules (in the KMP style described there), making it > easy for those 3rd party vendors to build modules. I have drafted a description

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Hans-Peter, On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:50:51PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 18:06 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > > This is btw one reason for the packagemanager changes, that this > > package installation from multiple external sites is possible. > > Hmm, how do

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Carl-Daniel, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:29:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > I will prepare a wiki page about the topic so that we can point to it > for future flamewars. Suggested title is "New driver architecture". > Comments? I have prepared some information at http://en.opensuse.

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi H-P, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:31:33PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 12:29 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > > This only affects a *small* subset of ISDN and DSL cards and exactly > > one wireless chipset (atheros). I fully expect that the GPL driver > > The

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Philipp Thomas
* Silviu Marin-Caea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20060216 14:42]: > If NLD10 and SLES10 would come out without support for hardware that > worked with NLD9 and SLES9, then yes, your complain is justified. Code for SL 10.1, NLD10 and SLES10 have the same base, so drivers missing in SUSE Linux will also mi

RE: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread Robison, Jonathon (M.)
I'm still running 10.0, massively updated from apt repositories. Anyone care to pull the background image from /boot/message with cpio and send it to me? I'd love to see this theme you like so much. Jonathon M. Robison Infrastructure Architect ET, ITI 313-323-9529 -Original Message-

Re: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread Azerion
Op vrijdag 17 februari 2006 13:04, schreef Marcel Hilzinger: > Hi, > as usually everbody is complaing about the betas I just wanted to tell you, > that I like the new boot theme very much :-) Nobody complains, at least I did not see anybody complaining. And yes, the boottheme is very cool :D. I m

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread David Wright
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 14:06 schrieb Kurt Garloff: > Hi Hans-Peter, > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:50:51PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 18:06 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > > > This is btw one reason for the packagemanager changes, that this > > > package inst

Re: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread Marcel Hilzinger
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 14:54 schrieb Robison, Jonathon (M.): > I'm still running 10.0, massively updated from apt repositories. Anyone > care to pull the background image from /boot/message with cpio and send it > to me? I'd love to see this theme you like so much. http://www.hilzinger.hu/

Re: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread houghi
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:51:37PM +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 14:54 schrieb Robison, Jonathon (M.): > > I'm still running 10.0, massively updated from apt repositories. Anyone > > care to pull the background image from /boot/message with cpio and send it > > to m

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Kurt, Kurt Garloff schrieb: > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:29:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>I will prepare a wiki page about the topic so that we can point to it >>for future flamewars. Suggested title is "New driver architecture". >>Comments? > > I have prepared some informa

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread houghi
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:50:01PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > Kurt Garloff schrieb: > > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:29:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > > >>I will prepare a wiki page about the topic so that we can point to it > >>for future flamewars. Sug

Re: [opensuse-factory] AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered

2006-02-17 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
houghi schrieb: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:50:01PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>Hi Kurt, >> >>Kurt Garloff schrieb: >> >>>On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:29:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >>> >>> I will prepare a wiki page about the topic so that we can point to it for

Re: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread David Wright
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 16:21 schrieb houghi: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:51:37PM +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > > Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 14:54 schrieb Robison, Jonathon (M.): > > > I'm still running 10.0, massively updated from apt repositories. > > > Anyone care to pull the backgro

Re: [opensuse-factory] Nice theme for booting

2006-02-17 Thread houghi
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:05:55PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > I would say it is clean, spartan and "professional", but hardly inspiring. It > is a lot better than some previous versions and I think it looks good for the > few seconds it is on screen - for the boot I also press Esc and watch wha

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Factory on our server is now updated with the new packages. > I started to install it on PPC. When installed it in graphics mode, it froze completely: keyboard/mouse does not respond, and mouse neither. Then I started a VNC install to be able to watch F3/F4 debug

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Peter Czanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Factory on our server is now updated with the new packages. >> > I started to install it on PPC. When installed it in graphics mode, it > froze completely: keyboard/mouse does not respond, and mouse neither. > Then I

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Czanik
Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Please create a bugreport with the above information and CC me on it. > > > Done: #151930 . The next will be there in a minute: it tries to install an i586 package on PPC... Bye, CzP - To unsubscribe,

[opensuse-factory] Webcam Support

2006-02-17 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
A recent thread [1] on suseforums at is ongoing and discussing the webcam support in SUSE. I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature on compiling kernel drivers by example [2] , which uses the pwc module [3] as an example. Is there any reason why webcam support

Re: [opensuse-factory] Webcam Support

2006-02-17 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:30:23PM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > A recent thread [1] on suseforums at is ongoing and discussing the webcam > support in SUSE. > > I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature on > compiling kernel drivers by example [2] , which use

Re: [opensuse-factory] Webcam Support

2006-02-17 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Joseph M. Gaffney schrieb: > A recent thread [1] on suseforums at is ongoing and discussing the webcam > support in SUSE. > > I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature on > compiling kernel drivers by example [2] , which uses the pwc module [3] as an > example.

Re: [opensuse-factory] Webcam Support

2006-02-17 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
On Friday 17 February 2006 17:00, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:30:23PM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > > [1] http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtop=209333 > > Doesnt work, gets me to the front page. > > Ciao, Marcus Whoops, typo http://www.suseforums.net/index.ph

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Nagios 2.0

2006-02-17 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2006/2/16, Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:01:29AM +, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > > Are you talking about the official tar from nagios.sourceforge.net?. > > It's an option, but that way i'm losing the init scripts for > > example... Am i right?. > > There's one thing

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Nagios 2.0

2006-02-17 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2006/2/16, Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post > Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What

Re: [opensuse-factory] BETA4 mirror sync has begon

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Please create a bugreport with the above information and CC me on it. > Just to give some positive feedback also: after 5 hours of fight in Friday night, I got beta4 running on my Pegasos PPC :-) I had to install a number of packages by hand, to replace i586 packa

Re: [opensuse-factory] Webcam Support

2006-02-17 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
On Friday 17 February 2006 17:15, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Joseph M. Gaffney schrieb: > > A recent thread [1] on suseforums at is ongoing and discussing the > > webcam support in SUSE. > > > > I replied to the thread with a link to the Novell Cool Solutions feature > > on compiling kernel d

[opensuse-factory] Using Atheros driver in Beta3/Beta4

2006-02-17 Thread Kirk Coombs
For those have Atheros-based wireless cards and can't use them because the nongpl modules have been removed in Beta3/Beta4, here are some instructions to easily get them working: 1. Go to the madwifi site and download the latest driver: http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng-current.tar.gz 2. C