June 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] connect/disconnect
by John/Pat Heinen 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

I had that little symbol "electrical plug" on the bottom of the screen, indicating whether I was connected or not. It diappeared, probably my doing, how do I get it back to get connected? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] downloading
by John/Pat Heinen 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

What do I have to do after I download, say thuntherbird, I find two incons on the desktop with a lot of files in each, what is the next step to get the program going.? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] set time and date in 9.3
by Doug McGarrett 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

It's been several years since I saw this problem and I forget how to fix it. The --help command is confusing to me. The problem: the computer is approximately 8 months slow--it thinks it's last March. Interestingly, the time is correct. If I need to be in SU mode, please advise. TIA-- doug Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] PDF File conversion
by Mark Misulich 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, a couple of months ago I wrote about the large file sizes that I was getting when I converted a word .doc file to OO odt file, with the intention of later converting it to pdf. They were in the size of megabites. This is a bit of an ongoing saga for me, as this time I made up the newsletter for the organization using Open Office from the start, and then attempted to convert the odt file to pdf in linux. I ended up having to go back to windows in order to get the file sizes to a manageable size, the linux files were too large. Here is a rundown of what I did. 1. I made up the newsletter using Open Office. The final file size was 198kb. Not too bad, I thought that it was going to work out as I expected the file to be smaller yet when I converted that to a pdf file. 2. I converted the odt file to pdf. The resultant pdf file was 758.8kb. I am shooting for around 200kb, but will send a file up to 300kb. Any larger and it takes too long for the dialup users to download it. 3. I tried to play around with the pdf conversion process by reducing picture quality, and/or reducing the quality of the total pdf document. I produced two other pdf's this way, and believe it or not when I reduced the quality of the document to 50% it actually produced a larger file on my first attempt. That file was 789kb. The second attempt (30% quality) was 750 kb. I decided to save the newsletter odt file in doc format to see how large it would be, before I quit linux for Windows. It came out to 270kb. I was hoping to open it in word in winxp, and then convert it to pdf. But the formatting was so messed up it was easier to start over fresh in Word. But then, they tell me it isn't going to work right when try to save it as a doc file in open office. The new word file displaying the same information (plus an extra couple of pages of text that I forgot on the copy that I produced in OO) as the newsletter produced in odt came out to 220kb. 4. Those linux pdf files were too large to use, so I went back to WinXP and made up the file in Word (220kb). I then converted that to pdf, and got a file size of 270kb. That is useable, and I don't know of any way to make it smaller in Windows unless I start removing some pictures from the newsletter. As it stands now, I think that I will have to stick with windows for this task unless someone has a brainstorm and thinks of a way to make these linux pdf files smaller. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ATI Drivers
by Vladimir Karpenko 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I tried to install ATI ctcalyst driver VIA one click install, and it is not working. Log gives something like this: WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection. Vied card is: ATI Radeon HD 3450 (RV620 95C5) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Window decorations in openSUSE 11.0 Compiz/KDE3.5.9
by Jay C Vollmer 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Greetings. I've just installed openSUSE 11.0 from the KDE4 Live CD on my ThinkPad T61p. I'm delighted to see that suspend to RAM now works as well as the ipw3945, neither of which worked right in 10.3. What isn't working for me in openSUSE 11.0 is the window-decoration when I use Compiz with KDE3. The title-bars of non-active windows completely disappear. Can anyone suggest a solution so my inactive titlebars don't disappear? -- JAY VOLLMER TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 11.0 and vmware modules
by Raúl Moratalla Guillén 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi, I installed openSUSE 11.0 with all the development tools. Also, I installed Vmware Workstation 6.0.4 that worked fine on openSUSE 10.3 but when I run vmware-config.pl and compile vmware modules for my kernel I get the following message: Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.3.1", while you are trying to use "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3". This configuration is not recommended and VMware Workstation may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3" anyway? [no] I looked at the repositories and there is no version 4.3.1 of gcc, so I can't compile the modules and run vmware (I get an error later). I am using kernel-default, but same happens with kernel-pae. Anynone has the same problem? How can I solve it? Cheers, Raúl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problems burning DVDs
by Clayton 20 Jul '08

20 Jul '08

I posted earlier about problems burning DVDs and the problem is still there. This has been an issue in openSUSE 11.0 and in Kubuntu 8.04 as well... so I don't think that it is an OS specific problem... but whatever it is, I haven't yet resolved it and I could use a little nudge in the right direction. Basically, I start a DVD burn on a known good ISO (tested, checked MD5s etc) and part way in, the burn fails. I have replaced the hardware (new DVD burner) and get the same behavior). I have replaced the OS (moved to openSUSE 11.0) and the problem is still there. The only thing that has not been replaced is the motherboard and the ribbon cable. This was a working DVD burner setup last week (burnt a couple DVD ISOs).... and no hardware/software changes (before I started tinkering to try and find out why it stopped working). System ----------------------- K3b Version: 1.0.5 KDE Version: 3.5.9 "release 49.1" QT Version: 3.3.8b Kernel: 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae Devices ----------------------- TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J SB01 (/dev/sr0, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] Burned media ----------------------- DVD-RW Sequential Used versions ----------------------- growisofs: 7.1 growisofs ----------------------- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0' /dev/sr0: engaging DVD-RW DAO upon user request... /dev/sr0: reserving 2247132 blocks /dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 6.1x1352KBps. 655360/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 702:07 RBU 100.0% UBU 4.8% 655360/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 1170:12 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% 655360/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 1521:16 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% 655360/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 1872:20 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% 655360/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 2340:25 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% 1409024/4602126336 ( 0.0%) @0.2x, remaining 1251:39 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0% 19464192/4602126336 ( 0.4%) @3.9x, remaining 102:01 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 47349760/4602126336 ( 1.0%) @6.0x, remaining 48:05 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 75235328/4602126336 ( 1.6%) @6.0x, remaining 33:05 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 103120896/4602126336 ( 2.2%) @6.0x, remaining 26:10 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 130973696/4602126336 ( 2.8%) @6.0x, remaining 22:45 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 158892032/4602126336 ( 3.5%) @6.0x, remaining 20:02 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 186744832/4602126336 ( 4.1%) @6.0x, remaining 18:07 RBU 100.0% UBU 98.8% 214630400/4602126336 ( 4.7%) @6.0x, remaining 17:02 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 242515968/4602126336 ( 5.3%) @6.0x, remaining 15:52 RBU 100.0% UBU 99.9% 270401536/4602126336 ( 5.9%) @6.0x, remaining 14:57 RBU 100.0% UBU 95.7% :-[ WRITE@LBA=22e30h failed with SK=4h/LOGICAL UNIT COMMUNICATION CRC ERROR (ULTRA-DMA/32)]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error /dev/sr0: flushing cache growisofs command: ----------------------- /usr/bin/X11/growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2247132 -use-the-force-luke=dao:2247132 -dvd-compat -speed=6 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Help!! DVD's won't play in Linux
by eddie 20 Jul '08

20 Jul '08

I've just bought a DVD Recorder/VCR with the idea of transferring my old VHS tapes to DVD. I've tried a couple and it has worked well and I now have the recorded on DVD. However, when I put them in to my computer to play them I find that they produce error messages along the lines of "source cannot be read" and stuff about not having sufficient rights. However, the same DVD's play without any problems under Windows XP, and I have not problems playing commercial video DVD's under Linux. I would be grateful if anyone knows of a way around this, as I use Linux 99% of the time. Secondly, does anyone know of my legal position (I'm in the UK) can I just take this equipment back? Thanks and just in case anyone is interested the equipment is a Philips DVDR3512V (a standalone DVD and VHS recorder) Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Beagle eats my CPU
by Jim Henderson 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:00:51 -0300, Gabriel Stein wrote: > I can´t see a program which works > perfectly I'd have stopped there, personally. No program ever works *perfectly*, even "Hello World" could stand some improvements. :-) Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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