Re: [opensuse-factory] unsubscribe

2007-10-30 Thread Per Jessen
Igor Jagec wrote: That's a good idea, but even better idea would be some web interface. I had an issue with unsubscribing from my old e-mail address since my provider (now ex provider) suddenly cancel my e-mail address (no it was not because of spamming, or something like that :)). If an

[opensuse-factory] #327336 yast2-ntp-client

2007-10-30 Thread Gabriel .
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Would you like to trust this key?

2007-10-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:44:56PM +0100, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Hi, I still have a factory box sitting around -- because it is such fun. After a zypper update -t package sysinfo:/ has it as openSUSE 10.3.1 (i586) Alpha0. I just did zypper install htop and got this: Aktualisiere '10.3

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages for Qt Jambi and Qyoto

2007-10-30 Thread Pavol Rusnak
Raúl Moratalla wrote: Hi, are there any plans to provide packages for Qt for Java and Qt bindings for C#? It would be interesting to build packages for them into the buildservice, other distributions already have packaged them. I created qt4-smoke and qt4-qyoto packages in my home project

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages for Qt Jambi and Qyoto

2007-10-30 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-10-30 18:28:04 +0100, Pavol Rusnak wrote: Raúl Moratalla wrote: Hi, are there any plans to provide packages for Qt for Java and Qt bindings for C#? It would be interesting to build packages for them into the buildservice, other distributions already have packaged them. I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages for Qt Jambi and Qyoto

2007-10-30 Thread Raúl Moratalla
Hi Pavol, Thank you for packaging smoke and qyoto. I installed them, but the package of qyoto is missing some files: the assembly (qt-dotnet.dll) and qt-dotnet.dll.mdb (I don't know if this file is needed). I created qt4-smoke and qt4-qyoto packages in my home project (home:prusnak) for

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Some comment on openSUSE 10.3 and GNOME after a month from release

2007-10-30 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 02:12 +0100, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: * Using GNOME after the first login/logout is annoying or impossible because: * The launchers in main-menu are slow or not responding at all (The standard menu is working).

Re: [opensuse] 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default, ATI Driver Fails to Build ko

2007-10-30 Thread joe
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Jan, I loaded 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default tonight and I ran into a few problems. Wifi disappeared (madwifi) and there were no drivers built for the new kernel. That was expected as I was jumping the gun getting the new kernel. The big hangup

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-30 Thread Clayton
Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember such a discussion

Re: [opensuse] radio streaming

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Goldstein
Hi, On 10/26/07, Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under opensuse 10.2 64 bit version, I was able to download mplayer with the w32 codec and plugin. Under firefox, I was able to hear some of the radio streaming with no problem. Under open suse 10.3 I downloaded he same packages but now the

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Boxes (shipping?)

2007-10-30 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Glenn Holmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 29 October 2007 18:20, russbucket wrote: On Monday October 29 2007 01:02, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Did you get in the meantime some reaction? The problems should have been solved by now... Andreas Just to let you know I just received an

[opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Hans van der Merwe
This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have plugins; eSVN, RapidSVN, KDEsvn, etc exist, but none come close to the feature set of tortoise. --- This is his words - what do

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Knott wrote: Donald D Henson wrote: Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/30/2007 02:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install? Just use the rescue system to repair GRUB, reboot and complete the install. I also had a grub failure due to an old mdadm.conf file, but fixing it was not

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade - burnfree

2007-10-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-10-29 at 19:00 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: It seems that k3b takes media speed as maximum in this case. Drive is 12x media probably 16x, and result is coaster. No, not possible, that would be bug the size of an

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-30 Thread Joachim Schrod
Donald D Henson wrote: Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember

Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-30 Thread Clayton
Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember such a discussion

[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Google earth. Does it work?]

2007-10-30 Thread Dennis E. Slice
Sorry, I replied to Jay instead of the list. -ds Jay C Vollmer wrote: It sounds like it's failing to initialize GL rendering. What are you using for 3D rendering? As I recall the T41 has an ATI chip. Are you using the Mesa rendering or the ATI driver? Don't worry - I used to have a T41

Re: [opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Benji Weber
On 30/10/2007, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have plugins; eSVN, RapidSVN, KDEsvn, etc exist, but none come close

Re: [opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Russell Jones
IIRC, there was an SVN Nautilus plugin... http://www.lynchconsulting.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/30/Subversion-plugin-for-Gnome-Nautilus It didn't work very well when I last tried it in 2004 or 5, but I daresay it's improved. Hans van der Merwe wrote: This is what I gathered from a

Re: [opensuse] kdar for 10.3

2007-10-30 Thread Istvan Gabor
Thanks. As far as I know, kdar was dropped from the 10.3 distribution since it has not been maintained upstream for quite some time and the existing version of kdar does no longer work with the dar version that is shipped It seems. I tried to compile kdar myself but got a bunch of errors

Re: [opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:52 +, Benji Weber wrote: On 30/10/2007, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have

[opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-30 Thread Aniruddha
I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of time to finish Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache. Any ideas what might be the problem? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

Re: [opensuse] How do I manage kernels in opensuse

2007-10-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:54 +0100, Peter Harmsen wrote: To install the NVIDIA driver you press alt+F1 and while in console you enter init 3. This disables some processes such as the desktop manager (kdm, gdm, etc ..). Now the actual install is straightforward. sh NVIDIA-.run or in case you

Re: [opensuse] SVN client

2007-10-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans van der Merwe wrote: This is what I gathered from a Windows web developer who has just switched to Linux. --- Anyone know why there is nothing close to tortoiseSVN for Linux? Sure IDEs have plugins; eSVN, RapidSVN, KDEsvn, etc exist, but

[opensuse] 10.3 and VMWare Server 1.0.4

2007-10-30 Thread John
Hi, after installing 10.3 (another story!) I tried to run VMWare server 1.0.3 and it didn't work. Downloaded the latest (1.0.4-56528) and installed and all seemed to be working OK. After running for a while, the virtual disk corrupted (XP - no snapshot :-( ). Have since reinstalled, and it

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Boxes (shipping?)

2007-10-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 4:09 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Glad to hear.  From what I've heard is that everything should be shipping now... Thanks Andreas. I also received the email yesterday. All the best, Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and VMWare Server 1.0.4

2007-10-30 Thread Erik Jakobsen
John wrote: Hi, after installing 10.3 (another story!) I tried to run VMWare server 1.0.3 and it didn't work. Downloaded the latest (1.0.4-56528) and installed and all seemed to be working OK. After running for a while, the virtual disk corrupted (XP - no snapshot :-( ). Have since

[opensuse] smart howto handle dependencies?

2007-10-30 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
ref: opensuse 10.3 smart: 0.51 Q: if you have many packages to upgrade but few are dependent of a library that is not available for example, how can you install upgrades that are OK and leave the ones that are not?. I have been doing it one by one but that is not good. What I am missing.

Re: [opensuse] YaST Product Creator Issue

2007-10-30 Thread Ladislav Slezak
Hello! aledr wrote: Good day! I created an AutoYaST and then generate an iso image using Product Creator. When I try tho install It shows: Could not find the OpenSuSE Repository. Activating manual setup program. and then just No repository found. Am I missing any step? Regards. There

Re: [opensuse] smart howto handle dependencies?

2007-10-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 06:20 -0600, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: ref: opensuse 10.3 smart: 0.51 Q: if you have many packages to upgrade but few are dependent of a library that is not available for example, how can you install upgrades that are OK and leave the ones that are not?. I have been

Re: [opensuse] mount.ntfs-3g eating substantial CPU

2007-10-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Hi, On 10/26/07, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: What is it that causes mount.ntfs-3g to run at what seems like random times. When this occurs, it will eat 17-30% pf the CPU running for several minutes also creating a lot of hard drive activity. Is this something like beagle that I can

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-30 Thread Igor Jagec
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:44 +0100, Aniruddha wrote: I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of time to finish Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache. Any ideas what might be the problem? Yeah, I noticed that too. Especially when I want to do some trivial

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/10/30 08:26 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no cards in the slots. I think I need to bite the bullet, and just make an initial installation. Do

[opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread David C. Rankin J.D. P.E.
Listmates, In a script, I need to test that the user is either root or has su'ed to root before continuing. The USER in the environment remains the original user and there is nothing set related to 'su'. Any thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree

Re: [opensuse] smart howto handle dependencies?

2007-10-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Teruel de Campo MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 08:22]: ref: opensuse 10.3 smart: 0.51 Q: if you have many packages to upgrade but few are dependent of a library that is not available for example, how can you install upgrades that are OK and

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clayton wrote: Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man page which crashed but gave me the info I needed Interesting. I hadn't considered that a full /tmp

Re: [opensuse] How do I manage kernels in opensuse

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Aniruddha wrote: I would like to try out the realtime kernel but I have problems getting my Nvidia drivers working. I have the kernel-source installed. I wonder: -How do I manage kernel symlinks in openSUSE? -How do I get the Nvidia driver working? In Gentoo I would switch the kernel symlink

Re: [opensuse] How to get list of variables

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 14:33, Thomas Hertweck wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: [...] I use this shell procedure (defined in my .bashrc) to query local variables: vq () { set | egrep -e $1 } Isn't set also reporting functions etc.? I usually use printenv to query

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:14:54 David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Listmates, In a script, I need to test that the user is either root or has su'ed to root before continuing. The USER in the environment remains the original user and there is nothing set related to 'su'. Any thoughts?

Re: [opensuse] Laptop power conservation

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Simon Roberts wrote: Hi all, I have been running SuSE 10.2 on a dual core laptop for a while (looking forward to upgrading to 10.3, but that has to be planned for first). I have had abysmal battery performance from the start (new machine, new battery). I pretty much dismissed this on the

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Listmates, In a script, I need to test that the user is either root or has su'ed to root before continuing. The USER in the environment remains the original user and there is nothing set related to 'su'.

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-30 Thread Bryen
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:57 +0100, Igor Jagec wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:44 +0100, Aniruddha wrote: I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of time to finish Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache. Any ideas what might be the problem? Yeah, I

Re: [opensuse] YaST Product Creator Issue

2007-10-30 Thread aledr
I solved. Just signed the media with a GPG Key. :) Thanks! 2007/10/30, Ladislav Slezak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello! aledr wrote: Good day! I created an AutoYaST and then generate an iso image using Product Creator. When I try tho install It shows: Could not find the OpenSuSE

[opensuse] Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-30 Thread Albrecht Mehl
I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my daily work at the beginning of a session to a ram disk and then working from there. At the

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread Cristea Bogdan
Here is the piece of code I have used: ROOT_UID=0 # Only users with $UID 0 have root privileges. E_NOTROOT=67 # Non-root exit error. if [ $UID -ne $ROOT_UID ]; then echo Must be root to run this script. exit $E_NOTROOT fi There is a forum about bash scripting: http://bashscripts.org/

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Schneider
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clayton wrote: Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man page which crashed but gave me the info I needed Interesting. I hadn't

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007/10/30 08:26 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no cards in the slots. I think I need to bite the bullet, and

Re: [opensuse] Update on scanner..........

2007-10-30 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Oct 28 23:24 Fred A. Miller wrote (shortened): The Epson Perfection 4490 is an AWESOME scanner!! I had to reinstall to 10.3 32-bit from 64-bit due to the driver not willing to work with 64-bit, and took a slight performance hit because of it. I think I understand now why it doesn't

[opensuse] OpenSuSE 10.3 Autofs

2007-10-30 Thread Ronald Nsubuga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hullo, I have a problem with automount using rcautofs which is generating an error message snip Starting automount startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/automount: 3

Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-30 Thread James Knott
Eberhard Roloff wrote: James Knott wrote: Donald D Henson wrote: Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting icons on

[opensuse] 10.3 problems

2007-10-30 Thread Ness, Todd
OK, moved from the 64bit 10.3 to 32bit 10.3, still have the same display issue. 01:00.0 VGA compa01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1) running NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run driver I have dual screens working, the laptop is a

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Stan Goodman
** Reply to message from Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:02:24 -0400 On 2007/10/30 08:26 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Stan Goodman
** Reply to message from Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:15:56 +0800 On 10/30/2007 02:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install? Just use the rescue system to repair GRUB, reboot and

Re: [opensuse] How do I manage kernels in opensuse

2007-10-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 21:39 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote: There's no reason to switch the kernel symlink. You should be able to just add the new kernal to the grub files in the /boot directory (this allows you to boot to either the regular kernel or the realtime kernel by just selecting a

[opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Lewis
I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has anyone run benchmarks on an identical system with 32 bit vrs 64 bit? Do we have a list of software

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:57 +0100, Igor Jagec wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:44 +0100, Aniruddha wrote: I have noticed this behavior on multiple machines. It takes a lot of time to finish Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache. Any ideas what might be the problem? Yeah, I

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and VMWare Server 1.0.4

2007-10-30 Thread eddie
Not that this helps on VMware, but opensuse has Virtualbox, that I installed Windows XP on. Works nice BTW. Have you got USB on your Virtualbox installed on 10.3? I had USB on 10.2 but since I've upgraded I have no USB. Did you have to do some magic if so please share. Thanks Eddie -- To

Re: [opensuse] Laptop power conservation

2007-10-30 Thread Simon Roberts
Great site, many thanks! You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz - Original Message From: Bryen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 8:37:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Stan Goodman
** Reply to message from Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:15:56 +0800 On 10/30/2007 02:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install? Just use the rescue system to repair GRUB, reboot and

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread BandiPat
On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has anyone run benchmarks on an identical system

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Ness, Todd
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:11 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has anyone run benchmarks on an identical

Re: [opensuse] rsync/drpmsync OSS Repo

2007-10-30 Thread Bjørn Lie
man, 29.10.2007 kl. 19.22 -0200, skrev aledr: I'm looking for a way to rsync/drpmsync the OSS Repo (http://rsync.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/). How can I do that? (I don't need all the Factory tree, OSS is enough :) ) Regards -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre OpenSource Solutions

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would think, yet many of apps plugins are still 32bit only. I believe that this is fluff and not fact. There are a few apps which

Re: [opensuse] smart howto handle dependencies?

2007-10-30 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
How can I skip this error and continue upgrading the rest of the packages? Unfortunately, I have not found any way to do this automatically. When the conflict is from a small number of packages, I typically delete the existing package and re-request the smart upgrade. If this works, I worry

[opensuse] 10.3 - wireless was fine. No longer can acquire IP - don't know what changed

2007-10-30 Thread Steve Jacobs
OpenSUSE 10.3 Dell Inspiron 8500 Dell TrueMobile 1300 wifi card (Broadcom, I think) Using ndiswrapper. Wired = eth0 Wireless = eth1 For about a week the wireless worked A-Ok - both in my home and my office - both using WPA2, both using hidden SSIDs, and both serving IPs via DHCP. Sunday night

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread Stefan Hundhammer
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:14, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Listmates, In a script, I need to test that the user is either root or has su'ed to root before continuing. The USER in the environment remains the original user and there is nothing set related to 'su'. Any thoughts? A

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 30 2007 17:13, Stefan Hundhammer wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:14, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Listmates, In a script, I need to test that the user is either root or has su'ed to root before continuing. The USER in the environment remains the original user and there

[opensuse] Eclipse hangs

2007-10-30 Thread Claude Fuhrer
Hello After a lot of works. I finally managed java to be usable on my laptop. But, there is still a problem I cannot solve. When I start Eclipse (the version installed by the RPM or the version I've dowloaded on the Eclipse Web Site), I can create new projects, I can open existing projects but I

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Lewis
On 10/30/07, Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would think, yet many of apps plugins are still 32bit only. I believe

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would think, yet many of apps plugins are still 32bit only. I believe that this is fluff and not fact. There are a

Re: [opensuse] Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Albrecht Mehl wrote: I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my daily work at the beginning of a session to a ram disk and then

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clayton wrote: Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man page which crashed but gave me the info I needed

Re: [opensuse] Update on scanner..........

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Fred A. Miller wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Massaging of data into a form you want is the domain of post-processing applications. Then there's work that needs to be done, but I don't do code. You're not the first person to scan negatives, so I doubt that you need

[opensuse] Making sysfs values persist across reboot

2007-10-30 Thread Marlier, Ian
Hi, all -- I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to get a setting made in the sysfs tree (in this case, /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource) to persist across reboot. Under opensuse 10.3 using a xen kernel, the default value in this node is xen. However, there

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread John E. Perry
Stan Goodman wrote: ** Reply to message from Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:02:24 -0400 On 2007/10/30 08:26 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the

[opensuse] Suse 10.2 Installation Conflicts With Hdd- the installation hangs when kernel gets loaded

2007-10-30 Thread Vitaliy Dovgan
Hi all! I have got trouble while installing SuSE 10.2 on Fujitsu Siemens Scenic D, Celeron 800 MHz, RAM 256 MB, HDD Quantum FIREBALLlct 20 10 (10 GB). First installation CD boots normally with blue screen and options for selecting language, installation type etc. When choosing any of

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has anyone run benchmarks on an identical system with 32 bit vrs 64 bit? Do we

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Russell Jones
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would think, yet many of apps plugins are still 32bit only. I believe that this

Re: [opensuse] Quick Bash Q - How to test for root when under 'su'

2007-10-30 Thread Stefan Hundhammer
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 17:15, Jan Engelhardt wrote: There is no guarantee that root or UID 0 actually have the privilege to do this or that. Think Linux Security Modules (LSM).. No, but that also wasn't the question here. For the ultimate check, there is little you can do other than try to

[opensuse] pci-e video cards?

2007-10-30 Thread David C. Rankin J.D. P.E.
lismates: What, out of the following, would be my best bet for compatibility with opensuse 10.3? The system is a Dell Optiplex w/Intel P4 2.8G with a pci-e 16x slot. I don't mind working with, or building, the proprietary drivers for ATI or nVidia. Basically, I use the pc as a desktop,

[opensuse] Kernel 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
As previously indicated on opensuse[1] ml, my repository(repositories[2],[3]) now carry a 2.6.23.1 RPM. This also marks the EOL for my SUSE-10.2[2] line. While you will find 2.6.23.1-900.ccj57 in [2] and 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58 in [3], they are functionally equivalent. [1]

Re: [opensuse] pci-e video cards?

2007-10-30 Thread Jason Craig
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: lismates: What, out of the following, would be my best bet for compatibility with opensuse 10.3? The system is a Dell Optiplex w/Intel P4 2.8G with a pci-e 16x slot. I don't mind working with, or building, the proprietary drivers for ATI or nVidia.

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:42, Russell Jones wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would think, yet many of apps

[opensuse] yast (gnome) and its windows

2007-10-30 Thread Johannes Nohl
Am I wrong or is something with yast wrong? Normaly a application opens pop up windows (like status / progress bar) without taking focus if it's not having the focus before. At least running gnome I cannot do anything else while waiting for yast (e. g. package selector). Yast is stealing the

Re: [opensuse] pci-e video cards?

2007-10-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Jason Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 13:18]: I have a GeForce 7300 GS, only 10.2 but I'm sure it is a similar situation with 10.3? It's a Chaintec, but nowadays they are all pretty similar. Meee2, w/512 and happy w/it on 10.1 w/nvidia

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 10/30/07, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has anyone run

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 30 2007 10:20, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:42, Russell Jones wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]: [...] But why? Do you run applications that need a

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 30 2007 13:46, Greg Freemyer wrote: Surprisingly (to me at least) we are seeing a speed improvement with a specialized version of dd (dcfldd) going against raw disks. ie. dcfldd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4k and dcfldd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=4k Bottleneck: Disk. You cannot really

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Schneider
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Clayton wrote: Problem solved: I filled the partition with /tmp on it, so nothing could be parked there. I found out when I tried running the sax2 man page which crashed but gave me the

Re: [opensuse] Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-30 Thread Albrecht Mehl
Aaron Kulkis schrieb: Albrecht Mehl wrote: The very nature of your question reveals that you are not very experienced with Linux, or Unix machines in general...and thus, don't have any idea of how complicated it would be to do what you propose. This can be true, but your ideas put forward

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 15:12:01 Aaron Kulkis wrote: A filesystem can't get corrupted if there's no write activity on it. Of course it can. Underneath it's hardware, and hardware can go bad. Effects such as bit flips can cause file system corruption at any time That's one reason for

Re: [opensuse] The system crashes directly after login

2007-10-30 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:09:17 Ken Schneider wrote: You don't have to be an engineer to realize you can't perform write operations to two different partitions at the same time on the same disk. Not that this discussion has anything to do with engineering, but I say you do have to be an

Re: [opensuse] Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-30 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:38:39 Albrecht Mehl wrote: I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my daily work at the beginning

Re: [opensuse] Eclipse hangs

2007-10-30 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claude Fuhrer wrote: Hello After a lot of works. I finally managed java to be usable on my laptop. But, there is still a problem I cannot solve. When I start Eclipse (the version installed by the RPM or the version I've dowloaded on the

Re: [opensuse] rsync/drpmsync OSS Repo

2007-10-30 Thread aledr
As I said: (I don't need all the Factory tree, OSS is enough :) ) or just this: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/ And, of course, I read the pages and there was not sufficient information there.

Re: [opensuse] yast (gnome) and its windows

2007-10-30 Thread JP Rosevear
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:56 +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote: Am I wrong or is something with yast wrong? Normaly a application opens pop up windows (like status / progress bar) without taking focus if it's not having the focus before. At least running gnome I cannot do anything else while

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Buddy Coffey
Has anyone run benchmarks on an identical system with 32 bit vrs 64 bit? Here is a benchmark of 32 bit vs 64 bit openSuSE 10.3 on a Core 2 Duo system. I have both 32 bit and 64 bit versions installed in separate partitions on the same system with all updates applied. I ran my

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-30 Thread Sloan
Andreas Jaeger wrote: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007/10/30 08:26 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman apparently typed: Specifying the hardware is very easy: This is an Intel board, 915GAV, with everything on board, specifically the video. There are no cards in the slots.

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Greg Freemyer wrote: On 10/30/07, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. Has

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