[opensuse-announce] New Mailinglists - networking/usability

2007-01-25 Thread Martin Lasarsch
Hi We have two new mailinglists [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both lists are a result of opening up our communication, they replace the internal lists we had so far. Beside the two new lists we also moved the internal packager list to the opensuse-packaging list. To subscribe to the

Re: [opensuse-factory] dist meeting agenda

2007-01-25 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Simon Strandman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package by default Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow detection. While we use

Re: [opensuse-factory] Order of Search Installation Sources

2007-01-25 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Jan 25. 2007 04:14]: openSUSE 10.2 does not appear to have any method of ordering the search of software catalogues under YAST Software Installation Source. Previous versions of SUSE had an option to promote or demote Source URL's in the search order so

[opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Hallo. Just now, the move to /usr in Factory and GNOME:UNSTABLE is nearly complete. We are able to test and fix remaining references to /opt/gnome, but there is another problem, which cannot be guessed by any way: References to /opt/gnome in home directories. If your package setup is broken

Re: [opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 25-01-2007 at 14:21, Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo. Just now, the move to /usr in Factory and GNOME:UNSTABLE is nearly complete. Good to hear... as I knew there was ongoing work, I did not look to much on errors in gnome these days... thank you for announcing this

Re: [opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Barranco
Hi, I'm sorry the relase 2.16.1 is really unstable? I know that tha gnome unstable brunch is at 2.17.5, why we don't start with the 2.17.x testing? Vincenzo - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Vincenzo Barranco wrote: Hi, I'm sorry the relase 2.16.1 is really unstable? I know that tha gnome unstable brunch is at 2.17.5, why we don't start with the 2.17.x testing? 2.16.1 partially moved to /usr was really unstable. It seems to succeed, so we can start to update to 2.17.x. It should

Re: [opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:21 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Hallo. Just now, the move to /usr in Factory and GNOME:UNSTABLE is nearly complete. We are able to test and fix remaining references to /opt/gnome, but there is another problem, which cannot be guessed by any way: References to

Re: [opensuse-factory] GNOME: please report post /opt/gnome-/usr errors in your $HOME

2007-01-25 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Rodrigo Moya píše v Čt 25. 01. 2007 v 13:48 +0100: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:21 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: Hallo. Just now, the move to /usr in Factory and GNOME:UNSTABLE is nearly complete. We are able to test and fix remaining references to /opt/gnome, but there is another

[opensuse-factory] YaST problem after factory upgrade

2007-01-25 Thread Sid Boyce
YaST comes up but won't open anything - hardware, software, Installation Sources or anything else, qt-3.3.7-24 is missing /usr/lib/qt3/translations/qt_en.qm. From y2log == 2007-01-25 14:56:34 1 barrabas(24708) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:84 SetUtf8Lang true 2007-01-25 14:56:34 1

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST problem after factory upgrade

2007-01-25 Thread andreas . hanke
Hi, YaST comes up but won't open anything - hardware, software, Installation Sources or anything else https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238031 qt-3.3.7-24 is missing /usr/lib/qt3/translations/qt_en.qm. No, this file is not missing, it just doesn't exist. Andreas Hanke -- Der

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 07:05 +, James Ogley wrote: Hmmm, the poster has a history of hopping around distro mailing lists and asking strange questions. Why, only this month he was interested in switching to FVWM on Gentoo. He's hit the Fedora list, Mandrake's Cooker list and the Debian

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:12 -0600, M Harris wrote: Do you really want a survey (as in scientific statistical sampling) or are you *yet again* trolling for a KDE vs Gnome flame war??? I like learning to develop small programs. I hate switching distribution for small reasons. I try to decide

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread kanenas
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the money for a wired network. I'd

Re: [opensuse] Problem updating opensuse 1.02 with opensuseupdater

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 08:19 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Error Couldn't restore Download metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh. I also had added packman repos to my sources, then the system told me some software updates are available, then when

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:55 +, Peter Bradley wrote: /etc/init.d/svnserve start returned 2 (invalid or excess arguments): Starting svnserve ..failed Well, some RPM based distributions, like Fedora also suggest to leave svcnserve inetd launched. Does anyone know what's going on, and what I

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 01:04 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread jdd
Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 21:12 -0600, M Harris wrote: Do you really want a survey (as in scientific statistical sampling) or are you *yet again* trolling for a KDE vs Gnome flame war??? I like learning to develop small programs. I hate switching distribution

Re: [opensuse] Synchronizing with ZENworks

2007-01-25 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa St 24. Január 2007 17:36 Peter Van Lone napísal: On 1/24/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that we have to synchronize and the way it's done is not reliable enough ATM. This is a design problem. We are right now evaluating in detail how to fix the design

Re: [opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-25 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Št 25. Január 2007 00:54 Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) napísal: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:02 +0100, Lennart Börjeson wrote: Well, you could disable update/refresh for the stable distribution Would you help me to find out where to check/uncheck this? I did not find... yast2 inst_source,

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 04:14 -0300, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: just subversion in apache with ssl and all will be fine. There is an annoying fashion these days, consisting of making almost all things through http-related ports: Webmail (instead of using IMAP/SMTP ports), and so on... (I wont

[opensuse] Re: my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, there is no question that the hardware will be changed. But I am curious why only my suse operation gets hit. Even the vmware virtual network card vmnet1, which is mapped to eth0 manages to pull and push its packets cleanly thru eth0!

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Curtis Rey
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:10, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 18:57, Curtis Rey wrote:  The main reason many in the business world tend to lean toward GNOME over KDE is usually due to license issue related to QT/Trolltech vs GTK. But this issue disappeared over a

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Curtis Rey
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:05, James Ogley wrote: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? Interesting question, suggests one needs to manually remove GNOME in order to use KDE. As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed

Re: [opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-01-24 at 20:01 -0900, John Andersen wrote: I definitely agree. The software updater is down there in the try all day long. Why can't it take care of these tasks in the background so that when you wanted to update it would

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread A. den Oudsten
Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? I did Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains KDE and K*/Qt* apps in

Re: [opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-01-25 at 00:54 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:02 +0100, Lennart Börjeson wrote: Well, you could disable update/refresh for the stable distribution Would you help me to find out where to

Re: [opensuse] locale problem (was: firefox locale)

2007-01-25 Thread Istvan Gabor
I assume that you have set Firefox's matchOS locale setting to true. (I have since discovered that the correct setting for general.useragent.locale is hu_HU.) The KDE setting does only apply to KDE and related applications, which covers none of the mozilla-based products. They will take OS

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Anders Johansson: Yes, you need to create the user svn. The detailed information is in /usr/share/doc/packages/subversion/README.SuSE (most packages have a README.SuSE with instructions on how to get things up and running) section 2 in that file reads 2. create svn user/group

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains KDE and K*/Qt* apps in

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Rui Santos
Peter Bradley wrote: Ysgrifennodd Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains KDE

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Cristian Rodriguez R.: bad question, why you want svnserve in the first place ?? just subversion in apache with ssl and all will be fine. Couple of reasons Cristian. Firstly, the book I'm reading concentrates on the client/server method, so I want to follow along. Secondly,

Re: [opensuse] svnserve

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): There is an annoying fashion these days, consisting of making almost all things through http-related ports: Webmail (instead of using IMAP/SMTP ports), and so on... (I wont list). Please stop wanting to have all-in-one stuff. Subversion has the

[opensuse] command-line way to get info about an mpg file?

2007-01-25 Thread fdr-os
I want to know the length in seconds or hh:mm:ss of an mpg file... I haven't been able to find a package with a util to do this in SUSE. Any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Need Router Recommendation

2007-01-25 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
James Knott wrote: That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more. I'm just shooting in the dark here, but When you clone the MAC Address what are you actually doing? Our

Re: [opensuse] command-line way to get info about an mpg file?

2007-01-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 06:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know the length in seconds or hh:mm:ss of an mpg file... I haven't been able to find a package with a util to do this in SUSE. Any ideas? mplayer from Packman mplayer -identify some_mpeg_file.mpg E-Mail disclaimer:

Re: [opensuse] command-line way to get info about an mpg file?

2007-01-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:50 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 06:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know the length in seconds or hh:mm:ss of an mpg file... I haven't been able to find a package with a util to do this in SUSE. Any ideas? mplayer from

Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?

2007-01-25 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:33, Linda Walsh wrote: As long as I have under 4G mem (and my apps need 2-3G), I see only downsides to moving to the x86-64 version. Am I missing something or is this pretty much the consensus view (assuming there is one :-)).

Re: [opensuse] speeding up software installation wizard

2007-01-25 Thread Lennart Börjeson
torsdag 25 januari 2007 00:54 skrev Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y): On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:02 +0100, Lennart Börjeson wrote: Well, you could disable update/refresh for the stable distribution Would you help me to find out where to check/uncheck this? I did not find... In the yast2

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the

Re: [opensuse] Need Router Recommendation

2007-01-25 Thread James Knott
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: James Knott wrote: That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more. I'm just shooting in the dark here, but When you clone the

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Donnie S Bhayangkara
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:07:38 +0700, David Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? 1 vote for KDE +1 for KDE (+100 if I could...) :-) +1

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:10 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 01:04]: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Xfce :) Regards, Bernhard pgpOftCCm4U5z.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [opensuse] Compiling Driver for SAGEM ADSL Modem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800/840

2007-01-25 Thread riccardo35
On Wed 24 Jan 2007 23:38, Olivier Borowski wrote: SuSE 10.1 eagle-usb driver has been replaced by ueagle-atm in recent kernels. openSUSE 10.1 uses kernel 2.6.16 which already has builtin ueagle-atm module (only firmware configuration files are missing) Please look documentations at

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Osthof
Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 13:47 schrieb Donnie S Bhayangkara: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:07:38 +0700, David Mayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2007 14:23 schrieb Bernhard Walle: * Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 01:04]: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE?

[opensuse] Killing Firefox

2007-01-25 Thread Hans van der Merwe
How do I gracefully restart Firefox from a script? If I kill it and restart, it comes up with a dialog about new or restore session. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Sabatke
I'm still trying to get my Samsung 225bw monitor and ATI RADEON SXPRESS 200 Series Card to install properly. The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread riccardo35
On Thu 25 Jan 2007 13:26, Alexander Osthof wrote: 1 vote for KDE 1 vote for KDE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread George Stoianov
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Jan 2007 13:26, Alexander Osthof wrote: 1 vote for KDE 1 vote for KDE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More is

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Jan Karjalainen
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Re: [opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help

2007-01-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:20, Jim Sabatke wrote: The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines.  The display works fine through the install process.  The first couple times I installed SuSE 10.1, the monitor

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 02:01, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: The poster is looking for the distribution he will use. I recommend platform independence. It is always best in my opinion to create apps that will work well regardless of the desktop environment. I heard some

[opensuse] Virtualization and printing

2007-01-25 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. The printer works flawlessly on Windows but has its moments on Linux, probably due to configuration errors. I could repair the configuration errors but I am wondering if their is

Re: [opensuse] Virtualization and printing

2007-01-25 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:36, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. Which printer? Configured native to linux as CUPS? Parallel, USB ? The printer works

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 06:46, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Look at also turning off ipv6 and see if that makes a difference. I would suspect ipv6 also, although James has a point regarding M$ following specs. I was thinking more along the lines of the root cause--the hub--and not the

[opensuse] Re: Virtualization and printing

2007-01-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. The printer works flawlessly on Windows but has its moments on Linux, probably due to configuration errors. I could repair the configuration

[opensuse] Re: [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
George Stoianov wrote: On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Jan 2007 13:26, Alexander Osthof wrote: 1 vote for KDE 1 vote for KDE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Postfix Qwerkiness

2007-01-25 Thread Jon Clausen
On Wed, 24 Jan, 2007 at 12:01:17 -0500, Brian Blater wrote: On 1/24/07, Jon Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: POSTFIX_ADD_MYORIGIN=$mydomain DOH! POSTFIX_ADD_MYORIGIN=\$mydomain That is exactly what I thought. Howerver, when I executed it and then ran SuSEconfig, postconf myorigin showed

Re: [opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help

2007-01-25 Thread S Glasoe
On Thursday 25 January 2007 08:20, Jim Sabatke wrote: I'm still trying to get my Samsung 225bw monitor and ATI RADEON SXPRESS 200 Series Card to install properly. The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The

Re: [opensuse] .wmf and .wmv files

2007-01-25 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Jan 24, 07 15:20:08 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: I know the w in the file means Windows.  Is there a plugin that will let Linuxers display these files?  (Kaffeine comes up and says no way.) If there is, how do I find it and install it?  These are from friends, so I don't think they are

Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?

2007-01-25 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Jan 24, 07 15:33:42 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: I have an Intel cpu / 64-bit extensions on a machine with 4G of memory. Just want some confirmation (or not)...it seems like i386 would currently be my best choice: all memory is accessible, no program I am running needs 2G addr space,

Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?

2007-01-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:33, Linda Walsh wrote: I have an Intel cpu / 64-bit extensions on a machine with 4G of memory. Just want some confirmation (or not)...it seems like i386 would currently be my best choice: all memory is accessible, no program I am running needs 2G addr space,

Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

2007-01-25 Thread Don Raboud
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:45, Peter Van Lone wrote: On 1/24/07, Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn, thought I had it. I unloaded the updater, and then did this: rczmd stop rm /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db rczmd start Then reloaded the updater and did a refresh. And, it is

Re: [opensuse] Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft

2007-01-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9314284615.html Yeah, I'd read about that. So when is Novell going to ship us $$ and/or laptops to write about our experiences with SUSE? I just got done finishing my budget for next

Re: [opensuse] KDE Census

2007-01-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:40, James Knott wrote: n7nkj wrote: Just installing 10.2 from the DVD. Been using KDE since 6.2. The little Gnome just doesn't cut it for me. When in Gnome, do as the Gnomans. ;-) Ouch! -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] Killing Firefox

2007-01-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thursday 25 January 2007 05:58, Hans van der Merwe wrote: How do I gracefully restart Firefox from a script? If I kill it and restart, it comes up with a dialog about new or restore session. I think you need to look at the root cause - why do you need to kill it? Is there a conflict?

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Kai Ponte
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that

Re: [opensuse] Postfix Qwerkiness

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Blater
On 1/25/07, Jon Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan, 2007 at 12:01:17 -0500, Brian Blater wrote: On 1/24/07, Jon Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: POSTFIX_ADD_MYORIGIN=$mydomain DOH! POSTFIX_ADD_MYORIGIN=\$mydomain That would do the trick. Not much of a programmer myself, so

[opensuse] Re: Virtualization and printing

2007-01-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: I am almost in the process of setting up OpenSUSE 10.2 with a VM of Windows XP. Attached to the PC is a printer. The printer works flawlessly on Windows but has its moments on Linux, probably due to configuration errors. I could

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Thursday 25 January 2007 16:01, M Harris: Have you played around with tcl/tk yet...? Tk, yes with Python. Why? -- -- Mihamina -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 1/25/07, Don Raboud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It eventually just went away, and one day, a few days later, I had regular updates again. I did not remove and reinstall the installation sources, and I did not run YAST online-update either in that period of time, although they might have

Re: [opensuse] Postfix Qwerkiness

2007-01-25 Thread Jon Clausen
On Thu, 25 Jan, 2007 at 12:21:33 -0500, Brian Blater wrote: On 1/25/07, Jon Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOH! POSTFIX_ADD_MYORIGIN=\$mydomain That would do the trick. Not much of a programmer myself, so little things like that are often overlooked. Indeed :P Thanks, Brian :)

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Thursday 25 January 2007 00:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: Hi, I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Optionnal question: is there a big team yet that maintains

Re: [opensuse] Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft

2007-01-25 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-25-07 12:16]: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9314284615.html Yeah, I'd read about that. So when is Novell going to ship us $$ and/or laptops to write about our experiences with

Re: [opensuse] Compiling Driver for SAGEM ADSL Modem [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800/840

2007-01-25 Thread Olivier Borowski
Le jeudi 25 janvier 2007 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : What steps, please, to activate : builtinueagle-atmModule ?? I think everything is already explained here : http://atm.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=UeagleAtmDoc If some part of the documentation is not clear, you can ask me

RE: [opensuse] Need Router Recommendation

2007-01-25 Thread Greg Wallace
On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: James Knott wrote: That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more. I'm just shooting in the dark here, but

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 10:01, M Harris wrote: If you are going to use English on a regular basis, I strongly recommend that you learn the language well. EASL classes are available the world over. You clearly know enough English to benefit from such a class. Please do not play the *English

Re: [opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help

2007-01-25 Thread Jim Sabatke
Bruce Marshall wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:20, Jim Sabatke wrote: The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The first couple times I installed

Re: [opensuse] KDE Census

2007-01-25 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:07 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:40, James Knott wrote: n7nkj wrote: Just installing 10.2 from the DVD. Been using KDE since 6.2. The little Gnome just doesn't cut it for me. When in Gnome, do as the Gnomans. ;-) Ouch! I

RE: [opensuse] Need Router Recommendation

2007-01-25 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:36 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: James Knott wrote: That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing more.

[opensuse] Re: openSuse 10.2 auto power off

2007-01-25 Thread Russ Fineman
gbh wrote: Many thanks to those who resonded to my query. Adding apm=power-off to the boot options fixed the problem. I was also having this problem I tried apm=power-off at boot (typed in) and it appears to work. where did you put it to make it permanent. I looked at sysconfig boot and

Re: [opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help

2007-01-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:41, Jim Sabatke wrote: I can't even get the binary driver to work.  The best looking screen I can get is totally black (except for a little window that says I should be in the 1680 x 1050 mode that stays on the screen for a few minutes). That little window is

Re: [opensuse] [Fwd: [TenMeters] TenTen and Linux]

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Anderson
Thanks for the information. I will contact him to see if I can help. Bill Anderson WW7BA Billie Erin Walsh wrote: I asked and received permission to forward this. Up front I want to say that the Linux/ham packages I have seen seem to be very good. But maybe could be better. 10-10 does have a

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-01-25 at 07:18 -0500, James Knott wrote: One thought is that Windows doesn't back off properly after collisions or otherwise behave nice. It wouldn't be the first time MS has violated spec. Collisions are handled directly at

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread William Holmes
On Thu January 25 2007 01:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? On desktop at home using KDE... William Holmes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? I have a strong pro-KDE stance, and an anti-GNOME one. Fortunately for me and SUSE, they didn't dropped KDE, even through some sources

Re: [opensuse] Problem updating opensuse 1.02 with opensuseupdater

2007-01-25 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: I also had added packman repos to my sources, then the system told me some software updates are available, then when I launch update, some rpms are not downloadable. Also have a look at the subject Updating X.org to 7.2, it's a close problem. I think

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Anders Johansson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:22, John Andersen wrote: So If I understand that correctly you are using bridged networking in the vmware machine? That requires the host os to alias the nic, and put it into promiscuous mode, No, not really. proxyarp does the job well, without using

[opensuse] root password lost in kde

2007-01-25 Thread Paul Ollion
Hello list I have a problem with kde on my new SuSE 10.2. It worked during the first days after install, and this curious behaviour appeared after an upgrade : whenever I try to launch yast2, or the file manager in superuser mode I give the root password and get a message saying it is a

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Anders Johansson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 06:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cable modem, connected to a 4 port hub for my home network. The two most active ports are the ones connected to my linux box and my son's hub. He usually runs just his xp box, maybe another machine. Occasionally he hooks up

Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

2007-01-25 Thread Don Raboud
On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:01, Peter Van Lone wrote: Anyway, so I tried Yast Online Update ... it found tons of items, including security updates, but ALL of them were flagged keep and update was not available to choose (it was greyed out). Plus, there were no details, or version info or

Re: [opensuse] root password lost in kde

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:33, Paul Ollion wrote: atelier : Jan 25 12:00:09 : paulus : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/paulus ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub - What does your /etc/sudoers file look like? Are you in it? That seems to be the issue. Also, you

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:23, Alexey Eremenko wrote: I would like to know who's using KDE in here, in the place of GNOME? As well as the distribution has decide to switch to GNOME, who stayed faithfull to KDE? Despite hating GNOME, I still find few GTK based apps excellent: GIMP,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread Carlos Lorenzo Matés
Hi El Jueves, 25 de Enero de 2007 17:32, Eberhard Roloff escribió: George Stoianov wrote: On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 25 Jan 2007 13:26, Alexander Osthof wrote: 1 vote for KDE +1 Vote for KDE -- Un Saludo. Carlos Lorenzo Matés -- To unsubscribe,

[opensuse] mouse pointer disappears

2007-01-25 Thread Richard Pace
Hi: Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+. My mouse pointer disappears every so often. The mouse is still working, so to speak - I just can't see it. Using keyboard controls I have tried changing personal settings in KDE to a new mouse scheme. That does

Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?

2007-01-25 Thread James Knott
Matthias Hopf wrote: You can run i586 programs on a x86_64 kernel, in fact this is very much advised for firefox (stabiliy, plugins) and video players (due to win32codecs). AFAIK openoffice isn't even ported to x86_64 yet. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-x86_64 -- To

Re: [opensuse] [little survey] who's using...

2007-01-25 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:40, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: EASL classes are available the world over. You clearly know enough English to benefit from such a class. Please do not play the *English is not my heart language* card and expect to get any sympathy here because you are not

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