September 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review
by Richard Creighton 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Sid Boyce wrote: > http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html > Mentions of "for the uninitiated" sounds about right. To sidestep any > problems with the DVD, I've installed from Factory. Looks like the DVD > should have been delayed until it was compared with Factory for > stability. > I think the reviewer attempted to be fair (he points to the URL to > show where he is coming from). Perhaps some pertinent pointers for 11.0. > Regards > Sid. http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html should be MUST READING for management at Novell and at openSuSE.org. It is eminently fair and for the most part, accurate. I think any inaccuracies could be attributable to unfamiliarity rather than bias. If this reviewer hadn't been what I would call a 'Power-user', and had instead been someone converting from Windows, not only would they probably not have had a successful install, but would have an article that Microsoft would probably have printed in full page ads throughout the world. As it is, it should wake up Senior Management in SuSE. regards Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Drivers for Intel graphic card GMA 4500MHD
by Stan Goodman 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

A thorough search of the Intel downloads pages failed to find a download source for drivers for the card GMA 4500MHD (or any other GMA cards). After several hours, I did find a remark that such drivers should be obtained from the download sources of ones own distribution. I have also made a Google search without finding anything, and searched the usual download repositories through YaST, also without success. Where, if at all, might the needed driver be found? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Latest NVidia driver update 185.18.31 crashes X on Quadro NVS 140M
by Jan Ritzerfeld 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hey! The latest update of the nvidia-gfxG02 driver from the NVIDIA Repository crashes X on my ThinkPad R61 with a Quadro M series graphics card. This is a known issue and was fixed in 185.18.36: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_185.18.36.html Jan -- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Flash Player Plugin in Firefox still doesnt work - Mac OS X 10.x and Ubuntu always works.
by LActive＠GMX.Net 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi all, The last 2 years or so there has been no real solution to the Firefox and Adobe Flash Player installation fiasco on a x86_64 system. I have tried all variants of installation found with search machines in the internet. I recently installed a few Mac OSX 10.x (PPC & Int.) and Ubuntu systems. None of them had the problems with Adobe's Flash Player. Why does openSUSE still have the problem? I also have no problems with Konqueror and Flash Player on openSUSE. I use it now for all flash requirements, even if a newer version can not be installed as it suggests. Firefox works with flash player in OSX and Ubuntu. A normal user (which we try to attract to migrate to openSUSE), that gets to a website with Firefox and is asked to install the plug-in, will have to select it. It starts to install and then says "Installaton failed". They do a manual installation from the link that is given to do it in the firefox plug-in finder service. I select rpm and it installs dierctly with the software installer. The software installer then reports that flash plugin could not be installed. The rpm failure message is "already installed". Copying all the sugestions' /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so does nothing to help. Maunual installations of the *.tar.gz does not work either. There used to be a page on openSUSE at http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats. No joy either. If you follow the hint to un-install all gstreamer packages, you come into a dependency hell. No normal user survives that! I got it to work for a short week until openSUSE destroyed it with an online update. How in the name of Hl can we attract normal users that will need flash player on almost all websites they use? It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please! :-( Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kudos to the folks working to keep the mirrors reliable -- they are working quite well
by David C. Rankin 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Peter, List: Good job to Peter and whoever else has been working the issue of repository failures (broken mirrors, etc.), they have been working much better this weekend. I have updated several machines (several hundred packages total) and hardly a single error. It makes updates much more pleasant. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] one click installs (.ymp) broken?
by Boris Epstein 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hello listmates, Multiple .ymp's don't see mto work for me anymore: I try to get them via my browser but no further action occurs (other than a prompt offering me to save them as text files). has anybody else had this problem? Does anybody know what has changed? Thanks. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.0 ssh -X, sudo yast2 call ncurses, su root yast calls qt -- why?
by David C. Rankin 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Devs, When managing remote systems via ssh, if yast2 is called by "sudo yast2" the ncurses interface is used. This happens even if you specify --qt "sudo yast2 --qt module". The opposite occurs when you su to root on the remote host and then call yast2. You get the normal gui interface then. Why the difference? (this came up when i set an alias of 'sudo /sbin/yast2 sw_single' and the ncurses interface appeared. It seem that if you are forwarding X, then you should get the gui interface regardless of whether yast is called by sudo or you su root before calling it) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can use the incoming mailserver but not the outgoing mailserver.
by Ricky Tompu Breaky 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Dear my friends.... I use OpenSuSE 11.1, KMail and DoveCot version: " sussy:/etc/ssl/certs # dovecot --version 1.1.7 ". This is the configuration of my DoveCot: " sussy:/etc/ssl/certs # dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.29-0.1-default i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Dovecot of MyGoogle.Com ready. mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd ". I have created local linux user account on my Postfix+DoveCot server. I also can access the content of my mailbox from my KMail. I am so happy but once I try to send email (testing the smtp) than I realize that I can't send an email from my email client (KMail). I use this setting on my email client: 1. 'incoming mailserver' == 'outgoing mailserver' == 'mail.mygoogle.com' (pseudonome). Also username and password are all the same between incoming/outgoing mailserver, namely the local userlogin of LINUX. As the username, I put 'ricky' (but not 'ricky(a)mygoogle.com'). 2. smtp authentication: No encryption and plaintext. The error message on my KMail is: " Sending failed: Your SMTP server does not support The server responded: "5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure". Choose a different authentication method. The server responded: "5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure" The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport was used: mygoogle.com Do you want me to continue sending the remaining messages? " and also: " Sending failed: Your SMTP server does not support The server responded: "5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure". Choose a different authentication method. The server responded: "5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure" The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport was used: mygoogle.com ". I'm stucked again. Please help me. Tell me where my mistake. Thank you very much in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ipconfrig--where?
by Doug McGarrett 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Does this program have ipconfig, and if so, how do you get to it? Ref: 9.3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4: How do I get it to stop opening terminals in ~/Documents
by Bruce Ferrell 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

KDE 3.5 used to open terminals in my home directory instead of Documents. I know this is a silly question, but I don't see any settings for this and Google has been most unhelpful on the topic. TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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