Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [Bug 204324] Broken vesa driver

2006-10-23 Thread Chad Groneman
On Monday 23 October 2006 08:19, Felix Miata wrote: > Either Dirsch or I seem to be misunderstanding what factory ftp is and/or > is for. Why does Dirsch seem to think I need to waste my time burning and > installing from CD instead of just installing from FTP? Does Dirsch not It seems to me that

Re: [opensuse-factory] ntp problems

2006-10-12 Thread Chad Groneman
Sid Boyce wrote: type=APPARMOR msg=audit(1159712726.582:6): REJECTING r access to /proc/net/if_inet6 (ntpd(3687) profile /usr/sbin/ntpd active /usr/sbin/ntpd) type=APPARMOR msg=audit(1159713575.608:7): REJECTING m access to /etc/ld.so.cache (netstat(4724) profile /bin/netstat active /bin/nets

[opensuse-factory] Ditching ReiserFS?

2006-10-03 Thread Chad Groneman
Hello, Saw this link today: http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/ I don't recall seeing anything about OpenSuSE 10.2 ditching reiserfs. Was that on a different mailing list? My 2 cents: I like reiserfs. For performance reasons, I don't think it's a

[opensuse-factory] High Utilization with zen components

2006-06-02 Thread Chad Groneman
Hello everyone, This has probably been addressed somewhere in a thread somewhere, but I can't see it. Anyway, I've noticed that whenever I do anything with the new software management tools (ZEN tools), my system's fans crank up. I check top and see that my utilization is in the high 90's or eve

[opensuse-factory] VMWare and XEN

2006-05-03 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation 5.5 running on the 10.1 RC3 xen kernel. VMWare works on the regular kernel, because of the vmware-any-any-101 patch. But when I try to do the vmware-config.pl when running the xen kernel, it fails. Has anybody been able to get this to work? I d

Re: [opensuse-factory] Why I'm confused :-).

2006-04-26 Thread Chad Groneman
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 13:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been doing this 10.1 test work just like a real user: In other words I > never > read any release notes or documentation :-). > > Meanwhile, there is all this highly confusing yast/rug/zypp/zen stuff going on > changing everything

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 events/0 CPU usage

2006-04-19 Thread Chad Groneman
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:53 +0100, Jon Black wrote: > The process that is taking up 90% of the CPU is called events/0. There > is an events/1 process that has 0% of the CPU...I'm not sure what > these processes do but I think they are processor related or perhaps > acpi. I don't know exactly what

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 events/0 CPU usage

2006-04-19 Thread Chad Groneman
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:30 +0100, Jon Black wrote: > Hi, I have a shiny new Intel Core Duo T2300 laptop with an nvidia geforce go > 7400 graphics chipset. When I boot into Linux, there is a process in 'top' > that is showing a 90% average cpu usage and it won't stop. I cannot kill it. What is the

Re: [opensuse-factory] Acrobat Reader Bug in RC1?

2006-04-17 Thread Chad Groneman
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I am new to the list & Linux so I wanted to ask you a question before filing > a bug report. Under RC1 (i586), it takes roughly 80 seconds to load Acrobat > Reader on my Dell Latitude D600 (just the application, without op

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bug attention

2006-04-14 Thread Chad Groneman
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 18:15 +0200, jdd wrote: > Chad Groneman wrote: > > > In particular, I'm concerned about 166027 (filed about 24 hours ago). > > I beg (beg obly, I'm not that involved :-) that the first > bug to keep attention are distro specifics. You'r

[opensuse-factory] Bug attention

2006-04-14 Thread Chad Groneman
Hello, Once in a while, I file bugs and feel they're not getting proper attention. I don't know what's on the developer's plates, and don't want to scream and yell when they've got more important things to do, but at the same time I want acknowledgement from someone. I don't know what my expecta

Re: [opensuse-factory] XEN and 3rd party drivers (nvidia)

2006-04-13 Thread Chad Groneman
I'll bug Stephan directly. On 4/4/06, Chad Groneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > My observation / question is twofold. > > In playing with XEN, I've found that I can't start an X session, because > of my > NVidia driver that works with my regul

[opensuse-factory] YaST installation source (add-on source)

2006-04-13 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, I have an add-on installation source that was designed for SuSE Linux 10.0, and I'm using it on my 10.1 RC1. It's the Novell Client 1.1 for SuSE Linux 10.0, found here: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=2RE4wvXCwqQ~ There's dependency problems, but that's irrelevant for this discuss

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE install constant CD polling

2006-04-06 Thread Chad Groneman
On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:37, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Chad Groneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 06:50 -0300, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote: > >> Last night I was installing 10.1beta9 under VMware, and I had to leave > >> the room

Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE install constant CD polling

2006-04-06 Thread Chad Groneman
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 06:50 -0300, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote: > Last night I was installing 10.1beta9 under VMware, and I had to leave > the room on the "Language" screen. When I came back, I noticed that it > coninuously polls for something on the CD. > > Unfortunately VMWare doesn't allo

Re: [opensuse-factory] compiz-kde

2006-04-06 Thread Chad Groneman
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Can it be added to 10.1? As xgl and compiz are still updated from CVS, it > would be nice to have KDE support as well. I don't know what the status of the CVS kde window decorator is - it looks like it hasn't been updated in several wee

[opensuse-factory] XEN and 3rd party drivers (nvidia)

2006-04-04 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, My observation / question is twofold. In playing with XEN, I've found that I can't start an X session, because of my NVidia driver that works with my regular kernel. The NVidia kernel module doesn't load when I use the XEN kernel. Is there an easy way to have graphical XEN and a 3D regula

Re: [opensuse-factory] Konqueror can't connect to any site

2006-04-04 Thread Chad Groneman
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:53 -0300, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote: > After recent updates, Konqueror can't open any sites, while Firefox > works perfectly. I get this message on Konqueror's window: > > -- > An error occurred while loading http://www.google.com: > Could not connect to host http:

Re: [opensuse-factory] minimal install don't install

2006-03-31 Thread Chad Groneman
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:27 +0200, jdd wrote: > Chad Groneman wrote: > > > My bet is this is because of the mono components needed to do the > > install. > > ?? > > jdd > I seem to recall seeing that the package manager in 10.1 is ZLM based. ZLM runs on mo

Re: [opensuse-factory] minimal install don't install

2006-03-31 Thread Chad Groneman
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:00 +0200, jdd wrote: > I try to install my extremely lowend laptop :-). > > from cd, no luck, extremely slow. > > I could copy the cd (beta 8) on the hard drive and boot from > there, with an acceptable speed. > > I choose minimal text install; > > problems: > > a manu

[opensuse-factory] Beta9 Minimal Install

2006-03-31 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, >From AJ's announcement: > The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need: > * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) > * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English > * All CDs for other selections I just did an i386 minimal text install, it took approx 45

Re: [opensuse-factory] Gnome menu editor -- beginner's question, possible bug?

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Groneman
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 06:47 +, James Ogley wrote: > > When I tried to edit my GNOME menu, I found that > > the only modification I could make was whether an icon showed in the menu or > > not. Even as root. Is this how it is intended, or is this a bug? > > What did you use to edit the menu?

[opensuse-factory] Gnome menu editor -- beginner's question, possible bug?

2006-03-16 Thread Chad Groneman
ely a lack of knowledge on my part. How do I edit or add an item in the Gnome menus? Thanks, Chad Groneman PS - This is not intended to start a KDE vs GNOME discussion. Please don't reply to this if that's your intention.

[opensuse-factory] Default firefox download location

2006-03-16 Thread Chad Groneman
fault location. That way less technical users could find their downloaded files, and it wouldn't clutter the desktop for those of us who are so busy it's hard to find time to clean the desktop. Just my 2 cents. Thanks, Chad Groneman

[opensuse-factory] Monitor choice no longer available

2006-03-01 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, Up until around 10.1 beta4, my monitor was always auto-detected and showed exactly what it was. With beta4 and beyond, it doesn't detect it anymore, because it's not in the list of available monitors anymore. It just shows it as a vesa monitor. It looks the same, but I like the warm fuzzies

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitions mounted in /media, data directories off /

2006-02-19 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, answers to questions below each question. On Sunday 19 February 2006 09:06, Christian Boltz wrote: > Hello, > > Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 19:55 schrieb Chad Groneman: > [...] > > > 3. My labeled partition seems to get different permissions: > > > > [EMAIL

[opensuse-factory] Partitions mounted in /media, data directories off /

2006-02-18 Thread Chad Groneman
Hi, I noticed with Beta4 that my partitions outside my fstab are automatically mounted inside the /media folder. I also notice that there appears to be several /data[x] directories, I think these existed in previous versions. I was hoping someone could give me a few details about these, speci