Re: [opensuse-factory] Would you like to trust this key?

2007-10-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 29 October 2007 14:44, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Hi, ... I just did zypper install htop and got this: Aktualisiere '10.3 - Update Repository' Möchten Sie diesem Schlüssel A84EDAE89C800ACA, SuSE Package Signing Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fingerabdruck

Re: [opensuse-factory] Would you like to trust this key?

2007-10-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 29 October 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: ... Wolfgang I wanted to take this name in high-school German class, but someone beat me to it. I ended up with Gerhard. How unfortunate. Now, now. My parents tell me they wanted to name me Hans, (which, for some reason, they

Re: [opensuse-factory] Sounds with pidgin

2007-10-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:15, Doctor Who wrote: Running the latest openSUSE RC with updates and pidgin produces no sound for me. The environment is KDE and both ALSA and ESD are running. Sounds are enabled in pidgin preferences. Looking for some culprits here...pidgin issue, sound

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 install not completing

2007-09-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 22 September 2007 14:57, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 22:12 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: ... Still this very problem _is_ caused by xfs. Everyone having had this problem so far could not reproduce a single problem when not using xfs. Even though the real

Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 install not completing

2007-09-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 22 September 2007 16:09, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:16 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: By the way, Kenneth, you're putting a reply-to header in that directs replies back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless that was deliberate, it looks like some kind of copy

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:13, Pascal Bleser wrote: ... Anyhow, being the only Linux distribution that would do it is a sufficient reason _not_ to do it. I find it surprising people fail to see that. By that logic, we need only one distribution, since there would be no justification for

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:41, Pascal Bleser wrote: Alexey Eremenko wrote: Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it the default. And it

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 15:00, Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 5/31/07, Ricardo Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think this only makes sense if we go through the sudo route, like Ubuntu. Otherwise, just symlink from /bin. Ohh yes, symlinking from /sbin to /bin can also solve those

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-30-07 21:02]: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 17:52, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 15:09 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-21 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: ... Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo ; swapon /mnt/foo ; /usr/local/bin/umount -l /mnt

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:53, peter nikolic wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Andras Barna wrote: use the opensuse-test ML :) Don't top-post! Trim list boilerplate and signature blocks! On 5/16/07, peter nikolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi . Test only Pete . Thanks .

Re: [opensuse-factory] test

2007-05-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:01, peter nikolic wrote: ... Pardon !! . I see the jump down your throat mentality has bled over here as well B4 you yell at me for top posting take a look i am one of the main protagonists telling poeple NOT to top post . That was addressed to Andras Barna,

Re: [opensuse-factory] recompiled stock kernel modules take many X more disk space than modules from installed rpm

2007-05-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:37, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I did: ... On my 10.2 smbfs.ko is only size 75753. Why do my modules consume 9.2 times as much overall disk space as the stock modules? What did I do wrong? Stripping? We apply strip

Re: [opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?

2007-03-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 08 March 2007 06:46, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag 08 März 2007 schrieb Andreas Vetter: Just a question regarding viewcvs (aka viewvc). Can we include a package cvsgraph in openSUSE? I think it's the other way around. The new name is viewvc, formerly viewcvs. And I, too,

Re: [opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?

2007-03-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:00, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag 08 März 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz: How many openSUSE users you think might require it? I'd go for 5 to 10. We're currently trying to get such packages out of the product everyone has to download and put them

Re: [opensuse-factory] no cdrecord

2007-03-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 08 March 2007 19:43, Donn Washburn wrote: Hey Group; In SuSE10.3 there is no cdrecord. I guest the author of cdrecords message to Linux hit home. Anyway, while downloading/updating or just lucky I saw a note the cdrecord was being replaced. Problem is my memory has not locked

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSUSE, bugs and some considerations

2007-03-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 March 2007 03:02, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2007-03-04 at 18:13 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 16:59, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Frankly, I would prefer bugs being solved rather than adding new features. As it is now, things are expected

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSUSE, bugs and some considerations

2007-03-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Carlos, On Monday 05 March 2007 07:32, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-03-05 at 07:03 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: next suse release... which adds new bugs, so we never are finished, not even nearly so. The only software that's finished is software that's dead

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSUSE, bugs and some considerations

2007-03-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 March 2007 10:52, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... There are some companies around producing bugless code. They spend like two years designing, and only about 6 month coding. It is indeed possible. Of course, they charge a lot for that class of code. I don't believe them. Unless the code

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSUSE, bugs and some considerations

2007-03-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 04 March 2007 16:59, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Frankly, I would prefer bugs being solved rather than adding new features. As it is now, things are expected to be solved on the next suse release... which adds new bugs, so we never are finished, not even nearly so. The only software

Re: [opensuse-factory] SMP

2007-01-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:52, Edward Dunagin wrote: ... hey fellows and gals, this confuses me to no end.sigh here is my cat /proc/info processor : 0 ... siblings: 2 ... processor : 1 ... siblings: 2 ... It sure looks like I have 2 processors.

Re: [opensuse-factory] SMP

2007-01-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:04, you wrote: On 1/17/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:52, Edward Dunagin wrote: ... hey fellows and gals, this confuses me to no end.sigh here is my cat /proc/info processor : 0

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hang Following Spurious Intel 965G Chipset Detection (more / new details)

2006-12-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:43, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:40:18AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, Perhaps I should try sending this message here. It was originally posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, was this on final too? Too? It happened _only_ on final

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hang Following Spurious Intel 965G Chipset Detection (more / new details)

2006-12-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:52, Marcus Meissner wrote: ... Now what? Bugzill. How will that help me get back a formerly functioning system? Why the hell do you make last-minute changes? Every software engineer alive who's been doing development more than a couple of years knows it's

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hang Following Spurious Intel 965G Chipset Detection (more / new details)

2006-12-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marcus, On Friday 08 December 2006 07:58, Marcus Meissner wrote: ... Please complete this sentence: To promptly restore funcationality to the system my people broke, Randy should _ Randall Schulz - To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:04, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/12/06 17:27 (GMT+0100) Marcel Hilzinger apparently typed: Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 17:17 schrieb Felix Miata: On 2006/12/06 15:53 (GMT+0100) Steffen Winterfeldt apparently typed: BTW, the online help mentions how to

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2006-12-06 at 11:29 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: ... CPIO is definitely a horse of a different color in the Unix archive tool world. Apart from the fact that it is the basis of the RPM format, it's really an archaic

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:16, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/12/06 11:29 (GMT-0800) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:04, Felix Miata wrote: Naturally, cpio --help and man cpio will give you the information you need. Naturally to you maybe. To me

Re: [opensuse-factory] christmas screen

2006-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 19:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... But the tradeoff with per-file compression is that you typically get rather poor compression for archives that contain many small files. Yes, the compression ratio is a bit worse, but that's something I will happily sacrifice

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package fails..

2006-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:59, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: ... Randall, If you woulnd't have known this site, you'd probably not even have remarked it.. so you just pointed it out :-) I certainly have never seen that site before, nor do I have even the slightest interest in what is

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package fails..

2006-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 04 December 2006 07:34, M9 wrote: Randall R Schulz schreef: ... I certainly have never seen that site before, nor do I have even the slightest interest in what is purveyed there. The name is enough to signal its purpose. So i guess we will have to call you st. randall now eh

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package fails..

2006-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 04 December 2006 07:50, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: ... I'm far from the typical sex-negative, puritanical American. I just don't go for children. Now I think you're exageraging a lot! Exaggerating what? You know nothing about me. I'm not even attracted to women, for crying

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package fails..

2006-12-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 December 2006 08:26, Monkey 9 wrote: ... Er... could you next time send such big attachments directly to the person needing it, and not send it to the list at large? It is 200 KB, and not everybody has wide band. There are people out there using metered network

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package fails..

2006-12-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 01 December 2006 09:11, Monkey 9 wrote: ... You might also want to think carefully about which URLs you leave visible on your desktop before broadcasting such a screen capture. urls? what urls? OK. A DNS name. It's in the taskbar shown in Saxf.jpg. M9 RRS

Re: [opensuse-factory] GM release

2006-12-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Carlos, On Friday 01 December 2006 21:14, Alexey Eremenko wrote: My router crashes after seeding 4 or 6 hours. And it runs an embedded linux with a 2.4 kernel. So I can't seed much. Why do you think it is running Linux ? Have you tested it ? It's certainly possible--even likely. LinkSys

Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: New kernel released for 10.2

2006-11-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andreas, On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:40, Andreas Jaeger wrote: We just released a new kernel package ... The major changes since the RC1 kernel are: * a couple of fixes in the SATA area * Disabling of the This module is unsupported by Novell warnings * Support for Intel 965 DRM What

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.2RC1 install failure ( fix) on ASUS P5B Deluxe

2006-11-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 24 November 2006 00:42, Andreas Jaeger wrote: ... Please report this in bugzilla - not sure whether we can handle this at this point of time but let's at least try... That bug has been in Bugzilla for quite a while already. In fact, as of this morning's batch (U.S. West Coast time)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Non-OSS Add-Ons Don't Change

2006-11-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andreas, On Friday 24 November 2006 09:34, Andreas Jaeger wrote: ... The DVD contains the non-OSS CD already. So, you have the packages on *both* media. OK. I didn't realize that. ... Andreas Thanks. Randall Schulz

[opensuse-factory] Non-OSS Add-Ons Don't Change

2006-11-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, When I installed Beta1, Beta2 and now RC1 the installer keeps indicating that none of the packages from the non-OSS add-on CD are newer than what's installed. Is that actually true? If so, why are new disc images released every time? If not, why don't the updates register? I use the YaST

Re: [opensuse-factory] Media for openSUSE 10.2 - additional sources, Idea?

2006-11-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Vincenzo, On Friday 17 November 2006 08:35, Vincenzo Barranco wrote: Hi, I tried this kommander script when i had 10.1, it works very well, but who of the new user that try openSUSE for first time know this application? ... this kommander script ?? Which kommander script? Vincenzo

[opensuse-factory] Recommendation w.r.t. NetworkManager

2006-11-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, The NetworkManager is new to me (I don't know if it was in 10.1, but I never installed that release) and I'm wondering what advantages or trade-offs it entails. Is it recommended or preferred for all 10.2 installations? Because I was unfamiliar, I just went with the Traditional method

Re: [opensuse-factory] Recommendation w.r.t. NetworkManager

2006-11-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andreas, On Wednesday 15 November 2006 15:10, Andreas Hanke wrote: Randall R Schulz schrieb: If it's relevant, this box has two NICs Yes, this is relevant because it means that you probably can't use NetworkManager. NetworkManager is not yet able to handle two NICs simultaneously. Great

[opensuse-factory] Re: Font Funkiness

2006-11-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 12 November 2006 12:01, Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, I just witnessed an odd phenomenon and I'm wondering if it's a sign of a problem or an aspect of the way font rendering operates (I can imagine it either way). ... Oops. I forgot to include any system information: - openSUSE

[opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE 10.2 Beta2 is available

2006-11-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, On Friday 10 November 2006 04:56, Andreas Jaeger wrote: I'm glad to announce the second beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. It contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. Thanks to everyone involved

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE 10.2 Beta2 is available

2006-11-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andreas, On Friday 10 November 2006 06:35, Andreas Jaeger wrote: ... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta2/openS USE-10.2-Beta1_Beta2-DVD-i386.torrent ... Is there any reason this torrent is at a standstill? Literally? I've had it running for 15 minutes and

Re: [opensuse-factory] About ext3 as default and periodic fs checks

2006-11-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
JDD, On Sunday 05 November 2006 23:49, jdd wrote: Carlos E. R. a écrit : Why is it deemed necessary to force a run of e3fsck at boot? It's a journalling fs, it's expected to cope. good question. The journal is just a redundant log of operations performed on the file system. It takes an

Re: [opensuse-factory] ZMD consumes 70-85% cpu during more than 150 minutes...

2006-11-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 06 November 2006 06:31, Martin Schlander wrote: ... See, for example: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215649 See also bug #217775: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=217775 There are log files from my system there. and this thread:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Ext4 in Opensuse 10.2

2006-11-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marcus, On Monday 06 November 2006 07:38, Marcus Rueckert wrote: ... just for the logic: ext3 - obsolete Are you serious? You really believe ext3 is obsolete? That seems odd, given how widely used it is. Even FAT is not obsolete and it's archaic. Perhaps you mean obsolescent? I.e., in the

Re: [opensuse-factory] Ext4 in Opensuse 10.2

2006-11-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marcus, Juan, On Monday 06 November 2006 07:52, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2006-11-06 07:44:53 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 07:38, Marcus Rueckert wrote: just for the logic: ext3 - obsolete Are you serious? You really believe ext3 is obsolete? That seems

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Cristoph, On Sunday 05 November 2006 03:37, Christoph Thiel wrote: ... Where does one see this status indication? And how does one alter or influence it? What do you mean by status indication? If you are talking about bug severity, I'd like to ask you to refrain from changing it.

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Christoph, On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:18, Christoph Thiel wrote: ... Therefore, I'd like to ask YOU to help identify those bugs, that are currently hiding under the radar (ie. aren't red) and should be elevated. I'd propose posting the bug numbers in this thread + giving a short

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Stefan, On Saturday 04 November 2006 10:15, Stefan Dirsch wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 09:37:50AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: I surely hope I don't have to live with an X server that dies every couple of hours (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216149). Still crashing

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:37, Randall R Schulz wrote: Christoph, On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:18, Christoph Thiel wrote: ... Therefore, I'd like to ask YOU to help identify those bugs, that are currently hiding under the radar (ie. aren't red) and should be elevated

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Stefan, On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:00, Stefan Dirsch wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:48:02AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Stefan, On Saturday 04 November 2006 10:15, Stefan Dirsch wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 09:37:50AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: I surely hope I don't

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 bug prioritization

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Stefan, On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:38, Stefan Dirsch wrote: Randall You don't know the details, why we switched to newer releases of X.Org and freetype2. And no, we will not discuss all decisions for software updates. Especially when there are legal issues. So you want to enlist our

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.2 beta1, software install don't start

2006-11-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jim, On Saturday 04 November 2006 14:46, Jim Pye wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 23:16 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote in reply to jdd: may be one hour later a firefox session was running when the whole computer crashes (no mouse, no keyboard, completely stuck). I had to leave, so I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andreas, On Friday 03 November 2006 07:47, Andreas Jaeger wrote: ... Won't you fix this constant running? Surely that cannot be normal operation, can it? At this point, it has run up 340 minutes of CPU time. What's it doing with this interminable activity? This is a bug - so, please

Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Martin, On Friday 03 November 2006 08:04, Martin Schlander wrote: Fredag 03 november 2006 16:15 skrev Randall R Schulz: What is this thing, anyway? Where have you been for the last 7 months? Avoiding and ignoring all the brouhaha about the SNAFUs in 10.1, what do you think? Here you can

[opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I've noticed that for the past three hours a process running the command zmd /usr/lib/zmd/zmd.exe --sleep-resume has been running at a CPU consumption rate of about 25%. It seems to be associated with a pulse of disk read activity about every 5 seconds (though I'm just inferring that from

Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Cristian, On Thursday 02 November 2006 12:27, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Is it normal for this process to run on and on like this? Is expected but not normal...it is just another sign that zmd should be bye,bye very soon now :-P Could you clarify a couple

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, On Saturday 28 October 2006 02:34, Mike FABIAN wrote: ... -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- !-- Per suggestion from Mike Fabian -- match target=font edit mode=assign name=autohint boolfalse/bool /edit /match ... match

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, On Thursday 26 October 2006 23:57, Felix Miata wrote: On 06/10/26 22:30 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: http://64.142.14.4/~rschulz/font-verdana.6-11pt.SuSE10.2b1.png Object not found! Sorry. Try now: http://64.142.14.4/~rschulz/font-verdana.6-10pt.SuSE10.0.png http

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Stephan, On Friday 27 October 2006 01:24, Stephan Kulow wrote: ... Yes, we have a new freetype and its authors worked heavily on the auto hinter. Your bug reports are welcome at bugzilla.novell.com Unless they can recover the previous release's quality before 10.2 final, I'm going to be

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Stephan, On Friday 27 October 2006 07:27, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Freitag, 27. Oktober 2006 16:20 schrieb Randall R Schulz: What motivated replacing what seemed to me to be a fine implementation? I bet you should subscribe to the freetype mailing list and make useful suggestions like

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, On Friday 27 October 2006 09:03, Mike FABIAN wrote: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] さんは書きました: If I can get the old behavior by tweaking /etc/fonts/suse-hinting.conf and / or /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config, I will. If I can get the old quality by recompiling FreeType, I will (I did

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 27 October 2006 09:00, Mike FABIAN wrote: ... http://64.142.14.4/~rschulz/font-verdana.6-10pt.SuSE10.0.png http://64.142.14.4/~rschulz/font-verdana.6-10pt.SuSE10.2b1.png (Note: The names changed, use these links.) I still get a 404 on the second URL. Sorry. It's fixed for

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, On Friday 27 October 2006 09:53, Mike FABIAN wrote: ... Most likely I will make rendering with the byte code interpreter the default for certain list of fonts where it obviously gives superior results. To test how it looks like using the byte code interpreter, put the following

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, On Friday 27 October 2006 09:53, Mike FABIAN wrote: ... ?xml version=1.0?fontconfig [...] match target=font edit mode=assign name=autohint boolfalse/bool /edit /match [...] /fontconfig When used in place of the elements that

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, On Friday 27 October 2006 07:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 07:27, Stephan Kulow wrote: ... Make sure you read the arguments of those in bug#170067 first though. ... I've read bugs 170076 and 186109 (well, so far I've just skimmed 186109--there's a lot

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, On Friday 27 October 2006 12:02, Mike FABIAN wrote: ... https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215602 apparently addresses the same issue. It's related, but it is not the same. Verdana has good byte code and renders excellently when the byte code interpreter is used instead

[opensuse-factory] How-To: Alpha5 - Beta1 Upgrade

2006-10-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade. My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST System Update from the

[opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I went ahead and did an upgrade. It appeared to come off without incident. I'm not pleased that Firefox was switched out from under me when the themes and extensions are not yet ready. The new TabMix Plus gloms all my windows into a single, overloaded window when it restores a session,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Font Rendering in Beta1

2006-10-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Felix, On Thursday 26 October 2006 20:54, Felix Miata wrote: ... I second the font issue... Alpha 5 had beautiful font rendering, unfortunately Beta 1 is really really bad... I even tried a brand new account to see if wiping all the settings would help and it didn't. Oh and I'm using

[opensuse-factory] Factory Woes

2006-10-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Many of the mirrors do not carry the openSUSE factory. Those that do appear to have mirrored a problem. To wit: http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source Can't provide /suse/setup/descr/packages.sk from

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing From Java Applications: No print service found.

2006-10-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Johannes, On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:05, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Oct 17 10:50 Randall R Schulz wrote (shortened): I am unable to print from Java applications ... ... report No print service found. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=197490 That report appears

Re: [opensuse-factory] Printing From Java Applications: No print service found.

2006-10-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Johannes, On Wednesday 18 October 2006 07:43, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Oct 18 07:03 Randall R Schulz wrote (shortened): On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:05, Johannes Meixner wrote: On Oct 17 10:50 Randall R Schulz wrote (shortened): I am unable to print from Java applications

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory source for Internet installation

2006-10-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rajko, On Monday 16 October 2006 22:11, Rajko M wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 20:11, Randall R Schulz wrote: Felix, On Monday 16 October 2006 17:13, Felix Miata wrote: ... Note that you need not download even the mini iso if your installation target already has a working

[opensuse-factory] Printing From Java Applications: No print service found.

2006-10-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I am unable to print from Java applications. Both jEdit (programmer's editor) and oXygen/ (XML editor) report No print service found. when printing is attempted (this is true for both the Page Setup and Print commands). Eclipse does not enable its Print command. I have configured a remote

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: Marvell 88E8056

2006-10-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Klaus, On Monday 16 October 2006 00:06, Klaus Kaempf wrote: * Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Oct 15. 2006 18:18]: [...] By poking around http://www.kernel.org/ I discovered a very simple change to sky2.c in Linux kernel 2.6.19 (-rc2) that enables support for the 88E8056

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: Marvell 88E8056

2006-10-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 16 October 2006 10:27, Juan Erbes wrote: 2006/10/16, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Juan, On Monday 16 October 2006 10:09, Juan Erbes wrote: You has the Ethernet controller enabled in the bios? ... I have much more than that... Now. I just applied the patch

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory source for Internet installation

2006-10-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Felix, On Monday 16 October 2006 17:13, Felix Miata wrote: ... Note that you need not download even the mini iso if your installation target already has a working grub. All you need is the linux and initrd from the appropriate boot/*/loader directory placed where a grub stanza can find it.

[opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: Marvell 88E8056

2006-10-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Can anyone help me activate the Marvel 88E8056 gigabit Ethernet controller on my system? It does not seem to be recognized: Here are two pertinent entries of lspci output: % lspci -vv ... 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 (rev 12)

[opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: JMicron JMB363 (w/ Intel P965 Chipset)

2006-10-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I have a nice new Asus P5B mainboard (please, no chastising me for choosing a board from a Linux-hostile vendor) that is, for the most part, running 10.2a5 successfully. However, that's so only because I had the brilliant, though completely serendipitous, idea to put one IDE optical drive and

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: Marvell 88E8056

2006-10-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hello again, A follow-up to this: On Sunday 15 October 2006 08:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me activate the Marvel 88E8056 gigabit Ethernet controller on my system? It does not seem to be recognized: Here are two pertinent entries of lspci output: % lspci |egrep -i

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: JMicron JMB363 (w/ Intel P965 Chipset)

2006-10-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Marcus, On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:06, Marcus Camen wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2006 17:08, Randall R Schulz wrote: Does anyone know if the JMicron JMB363 controller is actually supported by the kernel and driver complement of 10.2a5? If so, what must I do to render it operable

Re: [opensuse-factory] Hardware Support: JMicron JMB363 (w/ Intel P965 Chipset)

2006-10-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Marcus, On Sunday 15 October 2006 11:09, Marcus Camen wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2006 19:41, Randall R Schulz wrote: Is this a regression in 2.6.18-9? No, 2.6.18-11 does also work. I think I have enabled AHCI for the JM IDE controller in the BIOS settings. Hurrah! And thank you. Actually

[opensuse-factory] SPAM: I Have The Strangest Feeling I'm Being Watched

2006-10-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
... Or XEyes Meets the Geeko OK, whose idea was it to make the Geeko's eyes follow the mouse around the screen? RRS - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-factory] Where Is The Factory Boot CD Image?

2006-10-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I have successfully installed 10.2 Alpha5 on a new system. With the exception of one of its two (different) Marvel Ethernet interfaces being unrecognized (and the known issues), it's working fairly well. Now I'm considering installing factory packages. According to

Re: [opensuse-factory] Where Is The Factory Boot CD Image?

2006-10-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Carl-Daniel, On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:22, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: As I noted on the openSUSE Wiki page http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Desktops/Asus, to use the Marvell 88E8001 Ethernet interface, you have to override the default (and blacklisted) sklin98