Re: [opensuse] question

2008-01-25 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 25 January 2008 15:46:57 steve wrote: Jonathan Wilson wrote: | I use ATI cards all the time and they are excellent - I'm using a dual hed ATI | card right now and formerly had two dualhead cards on here for a 3-monitor | config. I have no trouble with them. In fact I buy ATI

Re: No VGA Input (was: Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server)

2008-01-25 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 25 January 2008 10:44:07 D Henson wrote: I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is installed? All that I do get is No VGA

Re: [opensuse] question

2008-01-25 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Friday 25 January 2008 13:55:03 Sloan wrote: Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: Oh thank you very much, i'll uninstall the program... and yes, i have an ATI video card, why? ATI cards have a problematic history with linux. That should be changing soon, since official, open source 3D

Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server

2008-01-24 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 24 January 2008 09:54:28 peter wrote: Marcus Meissner schrieb: | | Trying to do everything the easy way is what got you in trouble. Isn't it what computers suppose to do? Easier our lives? Supposed to? yes, but in case you haven't noticed, it hasn't happened yet :-D If you want

Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server

2008-01-24 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:39:51 you wrote: Jonathan Wilson schrieb: Supposed to? yes, but in case you haven't noticed, it hasn't happened yet :-D snip My post was also meant just as a thought and not as a particular request. snip Ok I'm out of it. I've said what I had to say

Re: [opensuse] WARNING! - Latest Update Kills Server

2008-01-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 10:22:48 D Henson wrote: The latest mandatory update appears to have killed my server. No, it didn't - at least not if you mean it killed your whole system. What you /probably/ mean is that you updated either the kernel, or some part of the X system, and now it

Re: [opensuse] KitchenSync

2008-01-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Saturday 19 January 2008 21:30:59 Chris Arnold wrote: I don't have a Q or use KDE, but what OS does the Q run? Windows Mobile? Yep, WM5 If so, I don't know very many folks that have successfully synced a Windows Mobile device with Linux. I am finding it that it may not work Hopefully

Re: [opensuse] Disable KSnapshot-Print Screen connection

2008-01-17 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 17 January 2008 09:32:44 Frank Fiene wrote: On Donnerstag 17 Januar 2008, David C. Rankin wrote: The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 15:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Window Screenshotalt+print Desktop Screenshotctrl+print Nothing happens. I would expect

[opensuse] Disable KSnapshot-Print Screen connection

2008-01-16 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, I have a user running KDE on openSuSE 10.3 who needs the print screen button NOT do anything when pressed. Right now it brings up KSnapshot. I've looked all over in the KDE Control Center, both with the search and Can't find anything about it. Oddly enough I do find Alt+Print and

[opensuse] Upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Is http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux the recommended/favorite way to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3? Is a DVD/cd upgrade better for any reason (more reliable maybe)? Thanks, JW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? Probably not

[opensuse] LiveCD of 10.3?

2007-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I'm trying to figure out if 10.3 will support an Intel 4965AGN wireless chipset. I'm having a terrible time getting it to work with 10. I looked on the opensuse.org site and it's not very clear to me - is there a LiveCD of 10.3? Can the Install DVD be booted up into a LiveCD system? Thanks,

Re: [opensuse] Ext3 vs Reiser FS

2007-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I've used ReiserFS on . . oh, probably nearly 100 computers in the past decade, and I've never had a FS failure that was the fault of ReiserFS - I've lost data on ReiserFS drives only due to: 1) Bad memory (most common) 2) Dying hard drives (would have died no matter what FS) 3) Dying mainboards

[opensuse] Best hardware DB to contribute to?

2007-07-11 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I tend to install SuSE on a few laptops every year and decided I might contribute my little bit of experience in this area to some online database of this-hardware-works, this-other-doesn't. There's several online, and I don't have time to contribute to them all. Does anyone have a suggestion

[opensuse] On-topic list, anyone?

2007-05-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Does anyone know of a mailing list for discussing technical issues about SuSE, that is on-topic only (no OT postings)? Anyone interested in starting one? It's kind weird - I'm on a great deal of mailing lists (have been for years), and just recently (past few weeks) there's been long, flame

Re: [opensuse] function in .bashrc

2007-04-25 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 09:40, Vince Oliver wrote: I would like to put a function into .bashrc file that would open a new Konsole in SUSE10.2 and cd into the result of the pwd command. Something like: pwdinnk() { p=`pwd` echo $p `dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP newSession` cd

Re: [opensuse] Okay tape experts, I need help understanding this

2007-04-10 Thread Jonathan Wilson
All, My IBM Ultrium LTO-1 drive under 10.1 can't read what it wrote under 8.2? Any ideas? Does anyone have any idea why I can't read these tapes with a 10.1 kernel? FYI: I also did a rescue boot to 10.2 and tried. Failed to read accurately there as well. Thanks Greg How did you write the

Re: [opensuse] 10.2: YOU resets /root/ permissions?

2007-03-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
So I have written a small service script to check the ink level every 60 seconds, Point 1: Is there a better way to get this information (I'm just asking)? and log that to a file in /root/. /root is where I keep all my system setting notes and system scripts, and I considder the ink level

Re: [opensuse] Scanner for Linux

2007-03-21 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Lívio Cipriano wrote: Any suggestions for an USB 2.0 scanner for Linux? For the record, on the inexpensive side of things, the Canon LiDE-25 works great too with recent sane versions (out-of-the-box on 10.2). The LiDE-20 and various older models such as the N676U and N650U have worked out of

[opensuse] CPU reviews or comparisons for the average Linux user?

2007-02-23 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hey all, I'm trying to find some useful reviews comparing CPUs (hopefully a broad selection, not just the 3 latest out of any given factory) for the average Linux office-progam desktop user. Reviews that take the 2 very latest Intel and AMD DualCores and compre them to each other are pretty