[opensuse] Adding/subtracting physical volumes in LVM

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Williams
ATM my /home mounts a volume group which holds partitions located on two different physical drives, one IDE and one SATA. If I wanted to swap the IDE drive for a new SATA drive, what would happen to the data held in /home? For example, if I remove the IDE volume from the group, will all the

Re: [opensuse] Adding/subtracting physical volumes in LVM

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Williams
On Thursday 27 September 2007 22:27:45 Sunny wrote: On 9/27/07, Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATM my /home mounts a volume group which holds partitions located on two different physical drives, one IDE and one SATA. If I wanted to swap the IDE drive for a new SATA drive, what would

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 RC1 doesn't see SATA drive in mixed IDE/SATA environment

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Williams
I have two hard drives, one IDE and one SATA. My 10.2 installation has /, /boot, /usr mounted on the SATA drive, while /home is a LVM2 volume spanning both hard drives. When I tried installing 10.3 RC1, it only detected the IDE drive. In the Partitioner module, choosing expert - import

[opensuse] 10.3 RC1 doesn't see SATA drive in mixed IDE/SATA environment

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Williams
I have two hard drives, one IDE and one SATA. My 10.2 installation has /, /boot, /usr mounted on the SATA drive, while /home is a LVM2 volume spanning both hard drives. When I tried installing 10.3 RC1, it only detected the IDE drive. In the Partitioner module, choosing expert - import

[opensuse] 10.3 RC1 doesn't see SATA drive in mixed IDE/SATA environment

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Williams
I have two hard drives, one IDE and one SATA. My 10.2 installation has /, /boot, /usr mounted on the SATA drive, while /home is a LVM2 volume spanning both hard drives. When I tried installing 10.3 RC1, it only detected the IDE drive. In the Partitioner module, choosing expert - import

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 RC1 doesn't see SATA drive in mixed IDE/SATA environment

2007-09-25 Thread Bob Williams
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:54:46 Bob Ewart wrote: Bob Williams wrote: I have two hard drives, one IDE and one SATA. My 10.2 installation has /, /boot, /usr mounted on the SATA drive, while /home is a LVM2 volume spanning both hard drives. When I tried installing 10.3 RC1, it only

Re: [opensuse] Buffalo wireless notebook adapter drivers

2007-09-15 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 14 September 2007 20:10:48 Kai Ponte wrote: On Friday 14 September 2007 11:53, Bob Williams wrote: The device is a Buffalo AirStation 125* High Speed Notebook Adapter WLI-CB-G54S this is a good site to go... http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ ...other than

[opensuse] Buffalo wireless notebook adapter drivers

2007-09-14 Thread Bob Williams
I've just been helping a friend install openSUSE 10.2 on her laptop. All went well until we tried to configure the wireless adapter, which grumbled about needing linux drivers. Unfortunately, there are only Windows drivers on the vendor's website. The device is a Buffalo AirStation 125* High

Re: [opensuse] FTP download of 10.3 Beta3 DVD ISO

2007-09-08 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 08 September 2007 08:07:08 jdd wrote: Hans Witvliet wrote: Just noticed that torrent is horrible slow. a couple of days ago i could get beta-2 at 24Mbps, but beta-3 crawls at 200kbps. torrent is pretty fast when many people share, that is mostly when a new distro is out (and

Re: [opensuse] FTP download of 10.3 Beta3 DVD ISO

2007-09-08 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 08 September 2007 12:56:15 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09-08-07 07:11]: Sharing is what it's all about. YES I've just downloaded beta 3 overnight, and I noticed that most of the peers I was leeching from were at less than 100% download. In other

[opensuse] POP filters in Kmail not working

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Williams
I have set up a POP filter in Kmail such that if To: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message is deleted from the server. However, messages to this address are not being deleted from the server, and are still appearing in my inbox. -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5, KDE 3.5.6

Re: [opensuse] POP filters in Kmail not working

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 01 September 2007 13:05, James Knott wrote: Bob Williams wrote: I have set up a POP filter in Kmail such that if To: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message is deleted from the server. However, messages to this address are not being deleted from the server, and are still

Re: [opensuse] RE: Self initiated HTTP messages to www.kde.org

2007-07-18 Thread Bob Williams
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 02:33, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Registration Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-17-07 21:23]: MY IPS system has been warning me of regular - time initiated http messages to www.kde.org. These messages are auto sent 24/7 even by idle Workstations. I cannot test a

[opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Bob Williams
In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having fiddled around a bit with the display settings, I decided to back out. So I reverted to the KDE window manager,

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Bob Williams
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according to the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl It went OK, except that all my windows lost their title bars. Having

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Bob Williams
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:56, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: In an experimental mood, I installed Beryl according

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with Beryl

2007-07-17 Thread Bob Williams
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 14:20, Bob Williams wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:56, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:53 +0100, Bob Williams wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:47, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 12:21 +0100, Bob Williams wrote

[opensuse] 32 or 64 bit?

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Williams
ATM I am running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, but I notice that some programs, outside the standard repository tree, are only supplied for 32bit OS. Will I be able to install and run these apps? If not, how do I force the openSUSE installation to allow me to install a 32bit OS? I only have 2G RAM, so

Re: [opensuse] 32 or 64 bit?

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:20:21 Andreas Jaeger wrote: Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ATM I am running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, but I notice that some programs, outside the standard repository tree, are only supplied for 32bit OS. Will I be able to install and run these apps? Yes

Re: [opensuse] A Smart Question

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 24 June 2007 22:40:50 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-24-07 16:14]: Thank you. What's the difference/what does ldconfig do that SuSEconfig doesn't? The man files are *really* there for a reason and although, somewhat cryptic in a lot of cases, really

[opensuse] A Smart Question

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Williams
If I use smart to install packages, do I have to run suseconfig afterwards? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.3, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] The missing dash-dash-space (was: smartmontools)

2007-06-10 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 10 June 2007 03:58:53 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Darryl Gregorash [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-09-07 13:41]: There is a bug in the enigmail extension that changes a leading dash to a dashspace. In the openPGP/enigmail menu, select preferences, then PGP/Mime, allow to use PGP/Mime. Then in

Re: [opensuse] More display problems

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 12 May 2007 01:44:18 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-11-07 18:47]: then copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.save.0511 as root from a console in runlevel 3, run either: nvidia-xconfig or sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia and do

[opensuse] Video editing with Cinelerra Kino

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Williams
I am using Kino to capture my miniDV movies, and would like to use Cinelerra for the editing, but it runs pig slow even though I've recently upgraded my graphics card to nvidia 7600 and got direct rendering working. Having read Rob Fisher's http://www.robfisher.net excellent guides I understand

Re: [opensuse] More display problems

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 11 May 2007 20:02:57 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Bob Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-11-07 13:52]: Having been unsuccessful with my ATI Radeon card, I treated myself to an nVidia 7600 graphics card. I've added the download.nvidia repository and installed the drivers, but running

[opensuse] Starting things as root at boot time

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Williams
I've recently installed the Squid web proxy cache. To start the daemon, I have to su and type /usr/sbin/squid. Is there a simple way of doing this automagically whenever I start my machine? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Starting things as root at boot time

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Williams
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 21:09:26 James D. Parra wrote: I've recently installed the Squid web proxy cache. To start the daemon, I have to su and type /usr/sbin/squid. Is there a simple way of doing this automagically whenever I start my machine? -- ~ Put the command in

Re: [opensuse] More Mythtv problems

2007-04-22 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 21 April 2007 20:53:20 Graham Smith wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Bob Williams wrote: Thanks. I've installed mercurial and downloaded/installed the v4l-dvb drivers. Kdetv now sees the WinTV-HVR 900 and can tune in to 6 free-to-air channels, but without sound :( However, mythtv

Re: [opensuse] More Mythtv problems

2007-04-21 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 21 April 2007 04:00:57 Graham Smith wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Bob Williams wrote: I'm trying to set up a Hauppage WinTV-HVR 900 USB stick to use with Mythtv. I'm following the instructions on http://lunapark6.com/?p=2682, but I'm stuck on the fourth line below cd /lib

[opensuse] More Mythtv problems

2007-04-20 Thread Bob Williams
I'm trying to set up a Hauppage WinTV-HVR 900 USB stick to use with Mythtv. I'm following the instructions on http://lunapark6.com/?p=2682, but I'm stuck on the fourth line below cd /lib/firmware wget http://konstantin.filtschew.de/v4l-firmware/firmware_v4.tgz tar xvzf firmware_v4.tgz hg

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test

2007-04-14 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:21:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbfs was never removed from the kernel, it was not enable, so it was very simple to turn it on. How, please? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Dolphin

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Williams
On Thursday 29 March 2007 21:59:04 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-29-07 16:32]: Anybody use Dolphin? How do you like it? fair. Don't access it too often, but its serviceable. I was reading about KDE 4.0 and how they're planning on incorporating the Dolphin

[opensuse] Webcam difficulties

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Williams
I'm trying to set up a Creative USB Webcam Live! I've installed Camelot 0.3.5 but when I open it I get an error message saying Initializing Video4Linux input failed: Cannot open device /dev/video0: No such file or directory which is indeed true. Problem, how can I get the software and hardware

Re: [opensuse] Webcam difficulties

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 23 March 2007 12:56:41 Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:03 +, Bob Williams wrote: I'm trying to set up a Creative USB Webcam Live! I've installed Camelot 0.3.5 but when I open it I get an error message saying Initializing Video4Linux input failed: Cannot

Re: [opensuse] Webcam difficulties

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 23 March 2007 14:09:41 Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 13:59 +, Bob Williams wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 12:56:41 Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:03 +, Bob Williams wrote: I'm trying to set up a Creative USB Webcam Live! I've

Re: [opensuse] Webcam difficulties

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Williams
On Friday 23 March 2007 14:21:16 Anders Damm wrote: Try the output from sudo tail -f  /var/log/messages Thanks. It's always useful to get CLI tips like this. I was using Krusader, then trying to open the file in Kate, not realising I needed root permissions. Doh! -- Bob SuSE Linux 10.2, KDE

[opensuse] Autostart

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Williams
I have a shell script which I would like to run each time I login. I'm not sure what I should put in ~/.kde/Autostart -- Bob SuSE Linux 10.2, KDE 3.5.5 http://www.bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Autostart

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 17 March 2007 09:38:26 Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: Greetings Bob. Lørdag 17 marts 2007 09:37 kvad Bob Williams: I have a shell script which I would like to run each time I login. I'm not sure what I should put in ~/.kde/Autostart I assume a bash script. Try to put the bare

Re: [opensuse] last applications become start up again after pc boot up, how can can I change this ?

2007-01-21 Thread Bob Williams
On Sunday 21 January 2007 19:10, Samir van de Sand wrote: Hey guys, when I start my computer the applications of the last sessions become restored, is there a way to prevent this ? regards Samir Take a look at K Menu Control Centre KDE Components

Re: [opensuse] Linux will never overtake Windows

2007-01-20 Thread Bob Williams
On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:52, StephenW wrote: Note to Bob: I seem to always want to learn another linux trick or two. So, I wanted to see what you had at http://bhf.demon.co.uk/linux/tricks.html. Could not get there until I added www. before the bhf. Also, when I click on the [EMAIL

[opensuse] Where's my local mail?

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Williams
I'm using Kontact/Kmail to collect mail from two external ISPs, no problem. I have also setup an account to collect mail from /var/spool/mail/bob but nothing arrives in my inbox. OTOH, following activity in a terminal window, I sometimes get the message 'You have new mail in

Re: [opensuse] Where's my local mail?

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Williams
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 17 2007 15:51, Bob Williams wrote: I'm using Kontact/Kmail to collect mail from two external ISPs, no problem. I have also setup an account to collect mail from /var/spool/mail/bob but nothing arrives in my inbox. Check /var