On Monday 28 January 2008 13:09, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay:
ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by
not forcing new computers to have to made.
This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it
I suggest you
On Friday 25 January 2008 07:43, Clayton wrote:
I've posted a couple times about this with no replies yet
Earlier today, the entire computer came crashing to a halt... so it
forced me to spend more time looking into the problem.
The motherboard I have (ASUS M2N-e SLI) has 4 SATA2 ports.
On Thursday 24 January 2008 00:37, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Packman should not provide libxml2, its just too lowlevel to work well
enough.
(Additionaly they can and should rebuild with a newer -release to make the
update work better.)
Thanks Marcus.
I think I will wait to see if a newer
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 01:43, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
How can I set xterms to max every time I start one up.
The definition of max and min can be viewed here:
http://www.urbakken.dk/min.jpg
http://www.urbakken.dk/max.jpg
Right click on the xterm title bar, select Advanced-special
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:43, PerfectReign wrote:
Doesn't do me any good. I delete all non-read emails every time I
check my mail.
Doesn't that get boring after a while? 8-)
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Hi,
Earlier today I was notified of a update (10.2, x86_64).
The update was for libxml2 to version 2.6.26-28. This is a needed security
update according to zypper. However the package is locked and can't be
updated in this manner.
The problem is that I currently have version 2.6.26-27 from
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
(I chose df instead of the more obvious mount simply because the
output is easier to read, in my opinion.)
mount | column -t
make the output much easier to read.
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On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:02, Philippe Landau wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008 5:28 PM, Michael Skiba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 22:51:48 schrieb Philippe Landau:
evince is probably safer:
Adobe applications are notorious for phoning home,
On Thursday 20 December 2007 23:14, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:57, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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Still no icons - I set Kview as the default action for all image types
in configure desktop, but I get nothing still.
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 05:31, M Harris wrote:
hi folks,
I have an openSUSE |KDE context menu question:
When I right click on the open desktop, or within a folder, I have a
submenu option called Create New under which I have options for Folder,
Text Doc, HTML, etc. Here is the problem:
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 10:12, M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 12:49, Don Raboud wrote:
Hope something here helps.
Yep... sounds like its time for me to upgrade.
:-)
In the meanitime, have a look at
/opt/kde3/share/templates
That is where the available create new
On Sunday 16 December 2007 18:54, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
How do I call 'ls' from within a script without it also returning the
contents of the present working directory? Here is the line from my script:
ls -al /usr/lib/libGL.so*
Here is the output:
#
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 12:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On another line... what is this:? First Western Digital restricts sharing
of multimedia files - does it means that somehow they manage to restrict
what type of files I save to a drive? How?
This was discussed recently on the register.
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies
partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images.
This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No
On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:02, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Advice: When posting technical questions, be sure to
use the correct terminology, otherwise, when you write
diesel ngine, but you actualy mean bicycle, everyone
thinks you are crazy.
For certain values of everyone.
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On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:00, Jason Craig wrote:
Anyone have any idea how I can trick or otherwise get the system to eject
this disk?
Have you tried 'eject' from the command line (as root if necessary)?
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On Monday 26 November 2007 15:01, Chris Worley wrote:
I've been using Unix since the 80's, and prefer X's
left-button-drag-cut (or double or triple click) and
middle-button-paste to WinDoh's, but, these days, nothing seems to
work.
I mostly use KDE, Konsole, Evolution, Firefox, and
On Monday 26 November 2007 16:18, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 26 November 2007 14:41, Don Raboud wrote:
...
I've seen very similar behavior with some of the apps you mentioned.
Specifically cutting a graphic out of Acrobat and attempting to paste
into openoffice impress.
Don't
On Saturday 24 November 2007 09:17, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:
Have changed now completely to 10.3 and was happy until I wanted to burn an
copy of the Opensuse 10.3 life for a friend.
K3B told me that there seems to be no carom drive installed. Looking
further into the problem I also
On Saturday 24 November 2007 10:56, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:
/usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom
probe = 0x138fc4aa17fff9fffe (+memory +pci +isapnp +net +floppy +misc
+misc.serial +misc.par +misc.floppy +serial +cpu +bios +monitor +mouse
+scsi +usb -usb.mods +modem +modem.usb
On Saturday 24 November 2007 12:16, Peter Van Lone wrote:
I have to jump in here: I have had the same issues as the OP, but with
mutliple versions of suse. My first version was 9.3, installed on an
ASUS based clone notebook. Then SLED on the same notebook, then SLED
on an HP nw8440 notebook
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 20:49, Denis Brown wrote:
Dear List Members,
snip
At this point a cold boot. Disturbingly during the POST there was *no*
video on screen. The card and monitor have dual (analogue and digital)
connections but video did not appear on either.
Once the POST
On Thursday 15 November 2007 12:36, Mike Grau wrote:
Although the downloaded DVD iso MD5SUM checked out, I did burn the DVD
over a NFS mount. Perhaps that's not a good idea? Perhaps, as Jose
suggested, the iso is corrupt. I'll download and burn a new DVD and see
how that goes.
Since the
On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:23, Magnar Strand Olsen wrote:
After I installed ATI 8.42, Compiz fusion worked as it should - however,
I got the common problem of the systray icons being scattered around,
and the kicker panel not working properly.
I thought it might be a good idea to install
On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:09, Ben Kevan wrote:
An error occurred while loading
smb://ctrc35/InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create:
Timeout on server
ctrc35
That is the same error I get when the server doesn't exist.
Can you ping the server in question? If so, try noting its ip
On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having kmail connect to my pop3 mail account, I know the server is up
because I am able to ping it, but it could be having trouble (sadly it
happens a lot with my ISP). The thing that is throwing me off is the error
message
On Sunday 28 October 2007 05:19, primm wrote:
In yast network card static
IP adderss, Subnet Mask and Hostname
My IP address is 192.168.1.2 and my hostname is hh1.local
What's my Subnet Mask?
/sbin/ifconfig will show you what you currently have. Look for the bit that
says Mask:...
As
On Sunday 28 October 2007 14:02, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
I ended up with a six-sided hexagon shaped cube
Not to be too pedantic but... oh never mind ;-)
Nice looking screen shots, BTW.
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On Sunday 28 October 2007 15:12, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
Don Raboud wrote:
On Sunday 28 October 2007 14:02, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
I ended up with a six-sided hexagon shaped cube
Not to be too pedantic but... oh never mind ;-)
Nice looking screen shots, BTW.
Yes
On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I just tried to play an audio CD. I got a message that said CD not found,
try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root. So I tried that. Here
is what I got (long, sorry about that)
snipping many devices tested
What is the output
On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:21, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:03, Don Raboud wrote:
On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I just tried to play an audio CD. I got a message that said CD not
found, try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:15, Randall R Schulz wrote:
The hardware _is_ well-supported by Linux. Anecdotal evidence (is that
an oxymoron?) is that Linux is _not_ well-supported by Asus. I cannot
confirm or refute this, since the only thing I ever rely on the
mainboard vendor for is BIOS
On Monday 08 October 2007 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hopefully the wisdom of list users will fix my problems
Problem one:
I installed 10.3 on my Acer Ferrari Saturday, after backing up /home
to some external hard drives. Those hard drives are encrypted using
YaST's partitioner
On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:58, Ron Eggler wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2007 03:55:16 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
but I'm still not able to login to http://192.168.0.2:631;
What went wrong here, what did I forget?
Thanks lots for your help!
This one:
# Only listen for connections
On Sunday 30 September 2007 17:57, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/01/2007 07:51 AM, Don Raboud wrote:
http://192.168.0.2:/631/printers/printer_name
Correction, no slash before 631, i.e.
http://192.168..2:631/printers/printer_name (which is really queue
name). HTH
:-(
But the 0
On Friday 28 September 2007 07:32, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sep 27 2007 21:45, Ron Eggler wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:12:34 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sep 26 2007 18:48, Ron Eggler wrote:
If you use IPP printing from Windows, you need to use Publish
Printer in the CUPS
On Friday 21 September 2007 12:12, Jeremy Figgins wrote:
I've seen a lot of top output thrown around on this topic and a bunch
of people have touched on this issue, but let me ask this question:
I'm sitting right now in front of my 1gig machine. I have my normal set
of apps open: firefox,
On Monday 17 September 2007 20:46, RTF wrote:
I tried what I normally would have used as
a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal
username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do
that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet
Hello,
I have created a new address book within Kontact and filled it in with a list
of student names. I've tried to sort the list based on Reverse Name (Last
Name First Name).
In looking over the list I realized that it was not in the same order as the
official class lists. Looking into
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:18, Donald D Henson wrote:
I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2 and am trying to add a small program called
'glabels', using YAST. When I click the 'Accept' button, I get:
Cannot access installation media
20070902-145913 CD 1.
Check that the server is accessible.
On Sunday 26 August 2007 05:58, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
On Sunday 26 August 2007 10:43:42 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
How many cpu's can linux support?
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor | tail -n1
processor: 1 (one)
rpm -q kernel-default
kernel-default-2.6.22.2-ccj52
Any
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 01:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2007-08-19 at 18:35 -0600, Don Raboud wrote:
Alternatively, is there a better/alternate way to do this ripping which
will incorporate the CDDB information.
Have you tried grip?
Not yet :-)
As I mentioned in a previous post
On Sunday 19 August 2007 18:35, Don Raboud wrote:
Does anyone here know how to get konqueror to access this CDDB information?
Alternatively, is there a better/alternate way to do this ripping which
will incorporate the CDDB information.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after years of using
On Monday 20 August 2007 11:04, jdd wrote:
each time I try to install a guru packages, I have a error package
not found on this URL:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/
what is worng? I have no error message in the configure upadte part
(and this is 10.1, not very fast on
Hi all,
I am trying to rip audio CD's to flac using konqueror's audiocd:/ feature.
When doing so, there is no CDDB information shown, just Track01, Track02, etc.
This used to work in 9.3 or 10.1 (I forget which I used to do this before) but
now I only have 10.2 running here.
On one of my
On Saturday 11 August 2007 15:53, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
In my country our administration is using PDF forms that we can print and
fill, or fill in the PC and print - but we can not save them, which is a
nuisance.
Acrobat Reader - which is is the only PDF reader that allows filling PDF
Hi all,
I recently got a new computer (openSUSE 10.2, x86_64, fully patched) which
does not have a parallel port. However I have an old HP Laserjet 4M (old, but
works well) which only has a parallel port connection. This is at home, and
I have a small D-Link DI-704P router which has a built
On Thursday 29 March 2007 13:50, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
There is one (1) aspect of zen that I DO like. There are certain
packages that I use that do not come from SuSE sources, Gramps for one.
Yast can't seem to install from my Download Directory since about 10.0.
It won't accept it as an
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:41, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
On 3/28/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexey,
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 12:48, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
So, do you have any idea how to setup KDE to be able shutdown/restart
instead of only logging off ?
You can
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:19, Robert Lewis wrote:
With the opensuse updater (blue orb that turns orange when something is
ready to receive)
there are two updates being offered that I don't want as they insist on
ekiga being
removed. These are CVS updates for opal and pwlib. I unclicked
Hi,
When I fire up YaST - System - Partitioner, there is a warning that pops up,
essentially saying, among other things,
NEVER (my emphasis) partition disks that may in any way be in use (mounted,
swap, etc) unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Let's pretend for a moment that this
Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. I would appreciate any
help with this, or a pointer on a more appropriate place to look.
I am using openSUSE 10.2.
I am trying to put some presentations together using OpenOffice Impress
(version 2.0.4, build 2.0.4.7), and I want to include
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:47, peter nikolic wrote:
Hi ..
working away on my laptop no problems at all (apart from the darn windows
box on the next desk) , I noticed an update showing for xsane so told it
to carry on and update it sits there for the best part of 2.5 hours
checking
On Friday 02 March 2007 15:29, Paul Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 5:23 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
nslookup lactarius
Perhaps just the hostname cannot be looked up using DNS?
Yes, that's the immediate cause of the problem, but I don't know a simple
cure for it since I'm using
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:16, Kai Ponte wrote:
I just knowticed somefing in Kmail.
I used to have spell checking enabled by default. I have the ispell
dictionary enabled and don't recall changing anything.
According to KMail Help...
KMail will automatically check the spelling of your
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:19, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
On Monday 12 February 2007 11:48, Bryan Tyson wrote:
Just for clarity, in 10.2 you can choose from several package
management systems. Under YaST-Software Management-Patterns both
Where do you find Patterns? I followed the path
On Monday 12 February 2007 11:48, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:13 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
all systems here are running better than any
previous release of linux I've tried.
I think it runs just fine. I have no complaints about how it runs. My
objection is that to install one
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I recently changed my DVD recorder (a Plextor PX-760A). This one does
not have an analog audio output so I have to play my audio CDs using
digital playback.
Well, I am using both SuSE 9.2 (KDE 3.3) and OpenSuSE 10.0 (KDE
On Thursday 01 February 2007 22:37, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:07:15AM -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
In looking into all of this however, I have discovered that I can't get
my monitor to display at its native resolution (1280x1024) at 60 Hz.
According to what? Gnome or KDE
On Friday 02 February 2007 07:24, Art Fore wrote:
I think what is confusing is what the printer name should be, but guess
the best way to find this out is to look at localhost:631 instead of
yast hardware printers.
lpstat -p
will also list the printers.
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Hi all,
I've been following some of the advice on the list recently about improving
the fonts in 10.2. I have seen a huge improvement so far, but there are
still some issues.
In looking into all of this however, I have discovered that I can't get my
monitor to display at its native
On Thursday 01 February 2007 11:45, Andreas wrote:
I had the same problem with my ati card and the binary driver. Adding a
line VertRefresh 50-60 in the monitor section of xorg.conf helped.
Here is the monitor section of my xorg.conf:
Section Monitor
Option CalcAlgorithm XServerPool
On Friday 26 January 2007 07:32, Peter Van Lone wrote:
well I re-registered SLED (which added back a couple repositories that
had been lost) and then I removed and re-added the repos suggested by
the Jem Report ... and, VOILA! I had tons of items return to my
updater ... but ... shriek! The
On Friday 26 January 2007 12:45, M Harris wrote:
hi folks,
Where does Mail Kontact Kmail hide the controls for determining how
often
an automatic check for mail will occur?
Settings - Configure Kmail - Accounts -
Pick Appropriate Account - Modify
near the bottom, check interval
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
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
On Sunday 14 January 2007 03:58, HG wrote:
Hi!
On 1/12/07, Curtis Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, tried to run YOU as well as YaST to contact the repo and got this
message AGAIN,
File ./media.1/directory.yast not found on media:
On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:40, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Strange problem. The fonts under the icons on the user's desktop are
all outline (in white outlined in black). I can't change any of the
fonts in the Configure Desktop Appearance Fonts menu to change them
to solid or bold. Is there
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 21:38, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
Hi everybody.
Yesterday I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 on my ThinkPad T41 and am so far
delighted by the improvements over 10.1.
Anyway, can someone tell me what has happened to the switch in power
management configuration which allows
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 10:52, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 18:37, Don Raboud wrote:
It seems like KMail is choking on at least one message somewhere, and I
am looking to find out a bit more information about which ones.
kmail will log to .xsession-errors, have
On Monday 11 December 2006 23:00, John Pierce wrote:
Ok, I just found out that the print dialog is overly wide when called
from any kde app, including konqueror.
Can anyone tell me where I can find the cause of this.
Not sure if this will help, but in the title bar, right click and
select
Hello,
Does anyone know if there is a log file associated with KMail? I've not been
able to find one.
At home I have a pop mail account with my ISP and occasionally (twice in the
last three weeks) KMail is unable to retrieve any of the messages. The only
information is a dialog box which
On Monday 11 December 2006 00:27, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
The Xterm is still not fixed. I can get xterm to get maximized, but
after it has been closed and opened again it has the same little window.
What I have tried is the options mentioned under the 6 options:
Do not affect
Apply initial
On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:00, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
How/where can I get the respective windows to remember their locations
and size. I would assume on each app window but have driven myself
arounnd several bends trying to figure out which does what so some help
would be
Hello all,
This may not be the best place to ask this, but its not entirely
inappropriate.
I have recently downloaded the free VMServer, created a virtual machine and
installed XP Pro. When I try to switch to full screen mode (using the
toolbar or CRTL-ALT-enter) not only does this
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:52, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 09:49, Don Raboud wrote:
However, if I change the screen resolution in XP to match what my monitor
is using (1280x1024) *before* switching to full screen mode, the full
screen works OK, but then of course
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:28, Stephan Binner wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:49, Don Raboud wrote:
nvidia driver 1.0-9629
Try 9631 - it fixes some fullscreen X.org crash bug.
That seems to have fixed it. Thanks.
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