[opensuse] Re: Running slow, / full

2008-01-29 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bob wrote: My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like

[opensuse] Re: Virtualbox versus WMware

2008-01-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Teruel de Campo MD wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Since I have to use MS Office every now and then I would consider to run alternatively Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable

[opensuse] Re: Gnokki

2008-01-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Lívio Cipriano wrote: Hi all, Does anyone can tell me where to find a package with the last version of gnokii for openSuSE 10.3. The openSuSE GNOME repository only as the 0.6.20. Hi, I would use gammu/wammu instead: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Nijel/openSUSE_10.3/

[opensuse] Re: Gnokki

2008-01-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Pavol Rusnak wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: I would use gammu/wammu instead: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Nijel/openSUSE_10.3/ Nijel builds development versions, latest stable version of *ammu are also available from mine home project. Thanks much, Pavol! I

[opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
PerfectReign wrote: On Sun, January 13, 2008 10:58 am, Jerry Houston wrote: I use remote desktop connections all the time at work, because we're commercial Windows software developers. At home, however, I've always used a rather clumsy KVM switch to change from my Linux hardware to my

[opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Rodney Baker wrote: On Monday 14 January 2008 19:50:07 Eberhard Roloff wrote: [...] Kai, on a sidenote. I saw that you have a visio icon on your Linux desktop. How do you run visio on Linux? Thanks much a kind regards Eberhard Visio runs OK under CrossOver Office (a commercial version

[opensuse] Re: KDE4 Remoting: Fantastic!

2008-01-14 Thread Eberhard Roloff
PerfectReign wrote: Visio is one of the few applications I cannot do without and for which I find no good Linux equivilant (KVivio, OpenOffice). I admit, I haven't tried Dia (http://live.gnome.org/Dia) but should. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/visio_suse.jpg In fact, I just

[opensuse] Re: Problem writing to drive shared by Vista and Suse 10.3

2008-01-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Chuck wrote: I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat) that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is never mounted to both at once) However, when booted into opensuse only root

[opensuse] Re: VirtualBox dos6.22 guest

2008-01-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:43 -0700, Tom Patton wrote: My athlon FX 2800 cpu goes to 99% immediately when the dos guest boots. There are a ton of entries on their forum regarding high cpu usage with several other guest systems, but no informative resolution at this point.

[opensuse] Re: Fwd: EXT3 partition access on Windows?

2007-12-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
jdd wrote: 0verl0ad wrote: Hi list, I am now completely onto the Linux OS (openSUSE 10.3). I removed Windows XP from system except that I have it installed on VMware and VirtualBox for some apps that WINE can't run and for college projects purpose. Now I have all the partitions in the

[opensuse] Re: Heavy-Duty Virtualization Question

2007-12-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 5:25 PM, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I have a tough choice. Client have an Intel-based Quad-Core PC with SuSE 10.3, and time to time (~1 - 1.5 hours day) needs Win XP with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamveawer and some

[opensuse] Re: Heavy-Duty Virtualization Question

2007-12-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Sunny wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 9:27 AM, Eberhard Roloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, as VMware Server will move away from being a desktop virtualization substitution to vmware workstation with the upcoming version 2, I would suggest to use virtualbox, instead. Can you provide some more

[opensuse] Re: Bye bye Sue 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
chika wrote: just wanna say good bye too, because i am going to home for a while n i will rarely check my email account (due to 50 MB quota of this account... now have reached 93.2% of 50MB) i have done this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for unsubscribing. many times but im still

[opensuse] Re: Bye bye Sue 10.3

2007-12-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: It was nice playing around with 10.3 but after loosing the use of my CDrom and unable to use my TV card I am back now with 10.2 where everything functions as it should. Have no idea what has changed within the two versions but with my older hardware, a

[opensuse] Re: vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jc Polanycia wrote: I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you running your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? -to use existing installations? -to use an already existing windows without the need to either install again or

[opensuse] Re: vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-03 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Cristian Rodríguez wrote: Bob S escribió: By being limited in the partitions available. Especially with the huge drives that are available today. LVM exists in order to preserve mental sanity in such setups. How does this permit to use more sdx devices than libata allows?

[opensuse] Re: Recommendations for a new graphics card

2007-11-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Paul Hands wrote: NVidia works. Don't touch ATI. paul Bryen wrote: I'm looking to get a new graphics card to support my new 24 LCD monitor. I don't want to spend alot of money and I'm not looking for fancy latest and greatest whiz-bangs. What cards have you seen out there/used that

[opensuse] Re: Second Try: Redesign of YaST Control Center

2007-11-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Sean wrote: Take note: i use ricoh mpc 4500 network printer (pay alot of money for this printer) but again nobody able to setup cups system. Imagine Ricoh malaysia , indonesia is big company but none of them can setup CUPs with all the feature. Do you see my point? not really. According

[opensuse] Re: SuSE 10.3 Cross Over MathType

2007-11-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Rajko M. wrote: On Friday 23 November 2007 06:58:43 pm Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I remember downloading some gift from MS at the time I installed Cross Over in 2005. But I never had to worry about that again until right now. So I cannot remember .. Maybe installing MS true type

[opensuse] Re: nVidia GeForce 8500GT not active at boot after nvidia-xconfig tweak

2007-11-22 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Denis Brown wrote: Dear List Members, openSuSE 10.3 on x86_64 system with Intel Core2Duo CPU and nVidia GeForce 8500GT video card and ASUS P5K motherboard. Forgive the long post but I figure it will save time in the long run if I give as much info as possible at day one. Installation

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review

2007-11-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Not only did I quit buying from RedHat -- I quit USING RedHat, too. I see that Novell's decision to imitate RedHat is causing my worst fears to be realized with the SuSE distro -- the one distro that I want...which I'm willing to pay around $100 US

[opensuse] Re: Another - Backup Solutions

2007-11-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Billie Walsh wrote: I've been kicking around something for a while that I thought was a pretty good idea. Once you get your system running like you want it build an ISO from it. The idea would be to have a bootable DVD/CD that would reinstall your complete system just like it was the day

[opensuse] Re: Broken YOU

2007-11-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Greg Freemyer wrote: All, No idea what I did, but if I try to run YOU it fails. From the CLI, I get: === # you Error loading language plugin /usr/lib64/YaST2/plugin/libpy2lang_perl.so: libzypp.so.324: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory No such client module

[opensuse] Re: No Build Service for 10.0 server anymore?

2007-11-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: Cristian Rodríguez wrote: David C. Rankin escribió: Mates, Buildservice continues to maintain many wonderful updates for 10.0. However, the server repository now doesn't have php updates for 10.0 any longer. (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php/)

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 WARNING: Yesterdays update killed online update and Software Management

2007-11-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Richard Creighton wrote: It's about time that the updater program and more generally Yast installer provide the OPTION to backup any files it deletes to either the trashcan or to a special directory for the purpose of providing the ability to recover from the increasing number of bad

Re: [opensuse] Re: 10.3 WARNING: Yesterdays update killed online update and Software Management

2007-11-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Richard Creighton wrote: It's about time that the updater program and more generally Yast installer provide the OPTION to backup any files it deletes to either the trashcan or to a special directory

[opensuse] Re: Problem with software management after zypper update.

2007-11-18 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: Yep, I never update using the suseupdater applet. I simply notice the red color, then fire up the full fledged qt style YOU. This one at least tells you there is a conflict. That way I wasn't catched this time. I second Carlos' wisdom. Just

[opensuse] 10.3 WARNING: Yesterdays update killed online update and Software Management

2007-11-17 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, just a warning. Since I made an online update yesterday, I can no longer run yast online update, and also can not start yast software management anymore. The helper applet in my kde tray displays: Error: Can't launch zypp-checkpatches-wrapper helper program. In the meantime I fixed

[opensuse] Re: What Happpened to my TrueType core fonts?

2007-11-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Istvan Gabor wrote: Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: To my surprise, my favorite font (Arial, 12 point) was not in the font selection drop down box. I'm (almost) positive that I installed the Microsoft core fonts during the latest install. If you installed Microsoft true type font

[opensuse] Re: Gnome Desktop in KDE World

2007-11-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bryen wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 -0600, Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: Hello all, I though I would ask here before I submit a bug report. Why after a log in that my desktop starts in KDE and maybe an hour later, gnome is switched in without my consect. Is there a setting

[opensuse] Re: opensuse_live_cd

2007-11-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
chika wrote: yuh its coming true forget about knoppix for rescue disk esp with ntfs-3g package included ntfs write support is in knoppix now for long. I use it all the time and never had trouble. but what about multimedia support audio or video??? works great on knoppix without any

[opensuse] Re: Set default size of xterm in xcfe?

2007-11-13 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ken Schneider wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I had not played with xfce before today, and I kind of like it. One question, how do I set the default xterm size so that it remembers the size of the window the next time I open xterm? Try either ctrl+middle click or ctrl+right

[opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hans van der Merwe wrote: Ive checked the suse sites and did a bit of searching, but I cant get a clean cut answer about the compatibility of the latest ATI driver and the Radeon 9000 and TV-out. I just need TV-out support - apparently the ati driver cant enable it. You need the official ATI

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:37 +0530, Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: hi roger I must say that VMware until version 6.0.2 does not support openSUSE 10.3 as host or guest. So to get it working, you will have to upgrade to VMware 6.0.1 at least. It must be understood however that

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: BTW, openSUSE 10.3 comes with VirtualBOX and you can install it from DVD it is also a good virtualizer. But then you need a 10.3 install into which you can install more virtual 10.3's, right? And you need to run them on 10.3. Did you try with the free -as in beer

[opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: I just need TV-out support - apparently the ati driver cant enable it. You need the official ATI driver for it - but some report that the old Radeon cards are not supported anymore

[opensuse] Re: virtual box or vmware with vista partition

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
jdd wrote: Hello :-) I have a new laptop with vista and installed easily 10.3. May I use the vista partition from virtualbox (preferably) or vmware? I fear to kill it trying :-( thanks jdd I do not know about virtualbox. With vmware, you could have a chance. I tried recently with

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
, 2007-11-12 at 10:52 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Did you try with the free -as in beer- vmware server? Not the server. I did not try 10.3 with it yet, but it is much more frequently updated and therefore way fresher than your vmware workstation 5.5 installation. I use the 5.5 workstation

[opensuse] Re: Radeon 9000 and latest ATI

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hans van der Merwe wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:11 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Hopefully the fact that AMD is now on the open source bandwagon will convince me to go back to ATI in the future. Not for me, I prefer to buy where I am treated like a worthy

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Richard Creighton wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I am running the latest 5.5.x vmware on OpenUSUE 10.0. I want to install OpenSUSE 10.3 as a client. Every time I try, the 10.3 install takes me to a character screen where I can set up partitions and all. Obviously there is something missing

[opensuse] Re: VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Richard Creighton wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I am running the latest 5.5.x vmware on OpenUSUE 10.0. I want to install OpenSUSE 10.3 as a client. Every time I try, the 10.3 install takes me to a character screen where I can set up partitions and all. Obviously

[opensuse] Re: HowTo get rid of SuSe 10.2 a residual burden on my hard drive

2007-11-11 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Maura, jdd wrote: this mean 10.2 was on /dev/sda2 * to get rid of the entry *in the menu*, go to yast and look for the entry about boot manager and delete the 10.2 entry (or go to /boot/grub/men.lst and remove the 10.2 entry by hand - with vi) imho, the file is named menu.lst, so it

[opensuse] Re: NVIDIA logo in 10.3

2007-11-10 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ben Kevan wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2007 12:03:24 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2007 11:13, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: In openSUSE 10.3 with the openSUSE NVIDIA package installed the NVIDIA logo does not show up before the kde logion screen is shown. Is this the

[opensuse] Re: why always ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run

2007-11-10 Thread Eberhard Roloff
chika wrote: ... i've download 8.43 actually... but i can't work :D it may be not for my graphic card my graphic card is RV280 5960 ( aka radeon 9250 ) fine get the driver on http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html but why i always redirected to download pages for

[opensuse] heat and stress GPU

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I change my gpu from an old ATI 9200 to a better supported NV7600 Me being computer sound adverse, both are silent i.e. I am fortunate that I can go by without gpu cooling fan noise. However from what I feel with my fingers and see via different tools (via (k)sensors, hdtemp and the

[opensuse] Re: Help with Java installation on SuSE 10.3

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: Thank you very much. I did that. Still R GUI for SUSE 10.3 does not work. Regards, maura Hi Maura, in case your problem persists, what is your java version on your machine? Find out with ex. rpm -qa |grep java if you are getting multiple java packages or

[opensuse] Re: How to install independant RPM packages in SUSE 10.3 GNOME?

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Kevin Dupuy wrote: Hello everyone! I'm having trouble wit Gtkpod 0.99.10, and I'm trying to install an independent RPM of Gtkpod 0.99.8 (or whatever). I downloaded the file and double clicked on it, but it appeared it wanted me to extract the RPM

[opensuse] Re: What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: Have probably missed a RandR discussion. But assuming that this is already an older problem, is there a workable solution? what RandR problem? On my desktop I cannot

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for some time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, unfortunately Robert did not give a

[opensuse] Re: Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: Ben Kevan wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 08:55:01 am David C. Rankin wrote: (New thread) I have also included additional detail at the bottom that may help. I have tried compiz with both the ATI 8.42.3 driver via Yast from www2.ati.com and with the 8.42 driver

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly comparable to what most people do at work or at home. I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned data centers and most desktops do

[opensuse] Re: Compiz_Fusion No# of desktops

2007-11-07 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Matthew Stringer wrote: Despite having all settings I can see set to 4 desktops it always shows 16 of them on the task bar which is a bit pointless and takes up almost the bar. If I stop CF it drops back to 4, any ideas what I could be missing, otherwise it's working fine on my 10.3 i386

[opensuse] Re: compiz fusion productivity benefit anyone?

2007-11-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: thanks anyone for your valuable input. I learned that one can really benefit from compiz and indeed, I am learning to love it. However I found that compiz fusion on KDE/10.3/32 works rather stably, but somehow from time to time, there are strange side effects

[opensuse] Re: compiz fusion productivity benefit anyone?

2007-11-06 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Chee How Chua wrote: Hi, I reconsidered. After installing xorg 7.3, I do not have the aforementioned trouble with compiz fusion anymore. So for now, I am happily working cubed Kind regards Eberhard Hi, Can I know how do you install xorg 7.3? Is it in the stable repository or the

[opensuse] Re: Installing an ISA ethernet card in 10.3

2007-11-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Roger Hayter wrote: If anyone can refer me to info about this problem I shall apologise and look it up but I can't find anything in the archives or by Google. I am trying to install a non-PnP NE2000 clone in my opensuse 10.3 setup which I plan to use as a gateway/router for my home network.

[opensuse] Re: compiz fusion productivity benefit anyone?

2007-11-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Teruel de Campo MD wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 11:52 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Is there anyone using some of the Compiz features daily in and out and did you experience some increase in your productivity? Eberhard, I do use Compiz-Fusion in regular basis. I have it in my laptop

[opensuse] Re: OpenOfficd.org Spreadsheet Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I have a small OO.org spreadsheet that has trouble staying open under the SuSE-supplied OpenOffice.org build 2.3.0.1.2. It was created using a non-SuSE OO.org 2.0.3 under SuSE 10.2. Whenever I scroll down a column to find something, I get a notice that the sheet

[opensuse] compiz fusion productivity benefit anyone?

2007-11-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, After some struggle with my old ATI, I am now on a newer Nvidia. The installation of Nvidia Drivers and Compiz Fusion worked great via One Click install from opensuse.org. Frankly, it took not much more than an hour on SUSE 10.3/32bit/KDE, to be on and fabulously going again. Time to say

[opensuse] Re: [Fwd: Re: Bye all]

2007-11-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Sorry for top posting but this an perfect example I just received in my mailbox: Forwarded Message From: martin glazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [opensuse] Bye all Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007

[opensuse] Re: [Fwd: Re: Bye all]

2007-11-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Michael Skiba wrote: Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 12:21:54 schrieb Eberhard Roloff: On a side note: If I look at the packman mail dialogue that the OP cited, I come to think that some people are crazy, to say the very least: You reasonably cannot expect service levels, immediate support

[opensuse] Re: External USB disk drive - how to get started?

2007-11-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Janus wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007 12:30, Jon Clausen wrote: Does anything dictate that you *must* use the old system to do the backup? No. I just need a reliable backup of everything. I prefer to do copy the backup to the external HD. Otherwise you *could* just boot the 10.3

[opensuse] how to get an anser (was: Re: hint hint - quit top posting on opensuse mailing list and you might receive help)

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
mukul wrote: So it really does hurt people like you that your dream OS has still got some chinks ;-) Steve Jeppesen wrote: no it does not. And any OS had more chinks than I can think of. On the other hand, please do not forget that this mailing lists help offering is free (as in money). So

[opensuse] Re: KDE bug

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: I have convinced you ... maybe you can forward my snapshot to all the other Linux/SuSE gurus who think that I've been drinking ... actually I am teetotaller (no alcohol at all). I tried to report the bug but it's taking too long at filling out all the

[opensuse] Re: Bye bye opensuse...

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
mukul wrote: All those people who are trying to take this to a personal level seems to have been offended by the subject line : Bye bye opensuse. Well, I did post the logs yesterday and no one bothered to have a look at it (not that you are obliged to), but Bye bye opensuse has attracted a

[opensuse] screenshot of your desktop (was: Re: Bye bye opensuse...)

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kai Ponte wrote: Hi Kai, maybe slightly OT, but I really would like to know it And just for the record - I use Windows, too - http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2007/20071101_rdc_vista.jpg In fact I am working at the moment. Your screen looks terific -How do you use Visio on

[opensuse] Re: Bye bye opensuse...

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ben Kevan wrote: On Thursday 01 November 2007 03:50:17 pm mukul wrote: After persevering with you for such a long time, I think it is time to let go and move on to better world of Mandriva or Ubuntu. A few problems I have encountered on the way and have not found any solution for those. My X

Re: [opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-11-02 Thread Eberhard Roloff
chika wrote: same here, got trouble with compiz fusion on radeon 9250. wonder when i can get compiz animation on my box Eberhard Roloff wrote: I am happy that I made a backup, just out of fear. ;-) Kind regards Eberhard 10.2/32bit/Ati Radeon 9200, fglrx deleted and back to Radeon

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-11-01 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jim Flanagan wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Jim Flanagan wrote: I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site shows

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-11-01 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi Brandi, BandiPat wrote: === That's not really true Eberhard. The 8.28.8 version supports his card and xorg 7.2. They just never changed their listing above 7.1, but it did support it. This is great news. Thanks much!! However this is the very first time I hear that they

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-11-01 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Knott wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: James Knott wrote: 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

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-11-01 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi Brandi, Just out of curiosity, I tried once more. I downloaded the latest drivers, installed them by making up an rpm, then installing this and following the proper advice that the installer gave for using SAX on suse to initiate the ATI driver. Result: sax2 crashes

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-11-01 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi Brandi, Just out of curiosity, I tried once more. I downloaded the latest drivers, installed them by making up an rpm, then installing this and following the proper advice that the installer gave for using SAX on suse to initiate the ATI

[opensuse] Re: Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
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

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-10-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jim Flanagan wrote: I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 to be the

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice.org Fast Launch?

2007-10-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: James Knott wrote: 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

[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

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 and VMWare Server 1.0.4

2007-10-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
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] Re: HP C4380 All in one

2007-10-29 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. I am interested in buying a HP C4380 All in one. I have googled, and think, that I found, that I can use it with my opensuse 10.3 Is that correct ?. Can I use the wireless interface too ?. As this is an hp aio device, it entirely depends on whether your

[opensuse] solved with Etch .deb (was: Re: ksensors does not display harddisk temperature)

2007-10-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: Hi, I am using 10.3/32bit and my toolk for monitoring cpu temp and speed, fan speeds and the like is lm-sensors with the KDE frontend ksensors. Up to SuSE 10.2 this used to also display the temperature of my harddisk if I had hddtemp installed. Now I have hddtemp

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

2007-10-26 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Glenn Holmer wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 06:33, Jorge Fábregas wrote: What bothers me is their lack of response. I went to: http://shop.novell.com/question and provided all my order details and never received any answer. I just got a terse response from Novell: Thank you for

[opensuse] ksensors does not display harddisk temperature

2007-10-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I am using 10.3/32bit and my toolk for monitoring cpu temp and speed, fan speeds and the like is lm-sensors with the KDE frontend ksensors. Up to SuSE 10.2 this used to also display the temperature of my harddisk if I had hddtemp installed. Now I have hddtemp installed, but for the life of

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

2007-10-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Kevin Dupuy wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:07 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Bryen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aside from 30 day installation support, what do we get from a purchased DVD versus the downloaded version? The Box comes with 2 DVDs. The first one is the downloadable version (but

[opensuse] Re: How can I make a ghost image for SUSE Linux

2007-10-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Kalvin Weng wrote: Dear All If someone knows that which software can be used to make a ghost image for the SUSE Linux .. That will make me more easier to install the OS .. I had tried to use the Symantec Ghost to make a disk to disk

[opensuse] Re: Can I do this with rsync?

2007-10-24 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Robert Smits wrote: I have a number of systems I'd like to regularly back up with rsync. Let me describe them. Computer 1 is my main desktop at home. It runs 24-7 and has a 500 GB USB SATA drive to do back ups on. It uses OpenSuse 10.2. It is networked to all other computers in the

[opensuse] Re: Changing ATI 9200 Driver

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryen wrote: I had thought I had an older graphics card in my system that wouldn't support Desktop Effects. Yes, you do, just like me (9200 SE here) But I discovered with glee that I indeed had a Radeon 9200 which is on the support list in the wiki. Well, 3D is

[opensuse] Re: [2nd try] 2 problems: firefox doesn't start; konqueror doesn't display pages automagically

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
drek wrote: Hi, Using openSUSE 10.3 32bit. I've got 2 problems: 1. Since this morning when I start firefox 2.0.0.8, it closes immediately and gives the following error: /usr/bin/firefox: line 208: 4355 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM $@ I uninstalled ATI fglrx rpm's, then firefox

[opensuse] Re: [2nd try] 2 problems: firefox doesn't start; konqueror doesn't display pages automagically

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Eberhard Roloff wrote: drek wrote: Hi, Using openSUSE 10.3 32bit. I've got 2 problems: 1. Since this morning when I start firefox 2.0.0.8, it closes immediately and gives the following error: /usr/bin/firefox: line 208: 4355 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM $@ I uninstalled ATI

[opensuse] Re: New Printer Info

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
G T Smith wrote: Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: I am looking for users' experience with printers under OpenSuSE. My Lexmark Optra E310 gave up the ghost, and I am looking for a replacement. I need it for small jobs (10 pages or fewer) but with reasonable speed. If possible, a color option would

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

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bryen wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:33 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On Monday 22 October 2007 11:54 pm, Kevin Dupuy wrote: Mine as well. I ordered it on 10/1. I'm going to call Novell tommorow. I seem to remember it took a while for 10.2 last year, but not 22 days! Not to mention they said

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

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Michael Skiba wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 16:08:34 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: We do ship already in Germany but I do not know the current status of shop.novell.com - I've asked my contacts now and will get back to you, Andreas I can confirm this, I received my box exactly a week

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

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James Knott wrote: Glenn Holmer wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 06:33:30 Jorge Fábregas wrote: On Monday 22 October 2007 11:54 pm, Kevin Dupuy wrote: Mine as well. I ordered it on 10/1. I'm going to call Novell tommorow. I seem to remember it took a while for 10.2 last year, but

[opensuse] seeking for Fluxbox, as well (was: Re: Seeking Minimal Window Decorations)

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a window decoration that is minimal w.r.t. wasted space (title bar and borders, basically). In 10.0 I'm fond of Glow. The action buttons that pulsate in a distinct color are a nice touch, but what I really like is how thin the borders and

[opensuse] Re: 10.3/10.2 kde desktop icon size

2007-10-23 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Ben Kevan wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 11:12:07 am Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi, Is there a way to change the size of the icons on the desktop (kde) so that I can line up more icons vertically? I tried with yast and also tried desktop properties but I

[opensuse] Re: Changing ATI 9200 Driver

2007-10-22 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bryen wrote: I had thought I had an older graphics card in my system that wouldn't support Desktop Effects. Yes, you do, just like me (9200 SE here) But I discovered with glee that I indeed had a Radeon 9200 which is on the support list in the wiki. Well, 3D is somehow supported for things

[opensuse] Re: Burned DVDs all Coasters!

2007-10-22 Thread Eberhard Roloff
G T Smith wrote: Gavin Chester wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:40 +0100, G T Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Smits wrote: I'm running OpenSuse 10.2 on one of my desktops, which also has a dvd writer. Lately, whenever I burn a data DVD with K3B, the

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice milestones

2007-10-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Juraj Trenkler wrote: Dňa Sunday 21 October 2007 Kazunari Hirano napísal: Hi Juraj, Start your OpenOffice.org, and you go to Help - About OpenOffice.org. Then you hold Ctrl key and type s, d, t. Milestone number and build number will scroll up. That is fine. But because of slow internet

[opensuse] Re: OpenOffice milestones

2007-10-21 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Juraj Trenkler wrote: Dňa Sunday 21 October 2007 Eberhard Roloff napísal: Juraj Trenkler wrote: Dňa Sunday 21 October 2007 Kazunari Hirano napísal: Hi Juraj, Start your OpenOffice.org, and you go to Help - About OpenOffice.org. Then you hold Ctrl key and type s, d, t. Milestone number

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 No Java Runtime for Firefox?

2007-10-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically, I want to see: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHVproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes Worked here. I have Blackdown java

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 No Java Runtime for Firefox?

2007-10-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Bryen wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:29 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically, I want to see: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid

[opensuse] Re: 10.3 No Java Runtime for Firefox?

2007-10-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically, I want to see: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHVproduct=N0Roverlay=1110loop=yes

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