November 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] modules gobble disk space with built kernel
by Felix Miata 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

/lib/modules/(stock2.6.21kernel)# du -s 60804 . /lib/modules/(my2.6.21kernel)# du -s 538292 . That's a 785% increase in space consumed by my modules over stock modules. Does that happen for anyone building their own Factory kernel? Can a more normal space consumption be made to happen by a mere mortal kernel building novice like myself? What I did was: 1-apply the patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7513 2-zcat /proc/config.gz > .config 3-make menuconfig to add smbfs and change the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION 4-make 5-make modules_install 6-INSTALL_PATH=/boot make install 7-fix the resulting broken /boot/grub/menu.lst -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] AIGLX
by Francis Giannaros 30 May '08

30 May '08

Users tend to ask about AIGLX quite a bit. Why do we not have this enabled by default, where possible? Xgl is nice and a lot of people prefer it (including myself), but a lot of people prefer using AIGLX too. Having it enabled by default where possible of course also provides the possibility of switching between compiz/kwin/metacity easier too. If not setting it up by default, perhaps we could consider having a script similar to gnome-xgl-switch for setting it up a little more easily for users. Any thoughts? Regards, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] FYI: Freetype is broken in FACTORY
by Andreas Jaeger 30 May '08

30 May '08

FYI: Current freetype in FACTORY is broken, use the version from Alpha4 instead of updating, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Acrobat Reader 8
by Igor Jagec 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Acrobat Reader 8 is out, but on openSUSE NON OSS repo I see only version 7. Does it mean that acroread package will not be updated for 10.3 final? Thanks! -- Igor Jagec

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[opensuse-factory] Can't Rescue 10.3
by Felix Miata 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Friday I determined that 4096 was an inappropriate blocksize for my non-libata hda19 Factory / partition. I booted 10.1 from hda7 and did a cp -a on that partition to another partition, reformatted to the 1024 blocksize, then did cp -a back to it. I then tried to mount and chroot to it in order to run grub-install. Grub-install failed due to the non-existent target device. Copying the hda19 device file from the 10.1 / and trying again didn't help. I tried to do a rescue installation, but both rescue modes apparently failed for a similar or the same reason. Is it possible in Factory to do a rescue? If so, how? -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Help Wanted: Move YaST tutorials from forgeftp.novell.com to openSUSE WIKI
by Lukas Ocilka 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, I've added a new idea to idea.opensuse.org | Move YaST tutorials from forgeftp.novell.com to openSUSE WIKI | http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/move-yast-tutorials-from-forgeftp.no… We are currently working on implementing features and that's why the documentation is a bit loosing at the end of the queue. On the other hand, moving those YaST tutorials can: * Help you to gain a respect from openSUSE community as well as from YaST developers :) ;) * Help you to understand YaST a lot more Additionally, this is not only about moving some texts somewhere else, you are expected to bring new ideas, new tutorials, you can realize your dreams :))) * * * * * More about idea.opensuse.org: It's a web/page for sharing ideas how to improve (openSUSE) Linux and also implementing those ideas. Maybe you are good designer but can't write in any programming language. Maybe you can just write in Perl or C++ and you are really good at it :) ... idea.opensuse.org is the best way to go! File an idea there or pick already filed one. * * * * * Thanks in advance Bye Lukas PS: YaST developers and their (development-related) help can be found also on IRC at irc.freenode.net, channel #yast -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o., Lihovarska 1060/12, Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Re: [opensuse-factory] pulseaudio and 11.0
by Rodrigo Moya 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 17:27 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Friday 23 November 2007, Rodrigo Moya said: > > So, first, I would like people to test the packages we've built, and > > second, what needs to be done to put this into the distro for 11.0? Are > > KDE people aware and happy of the change? > > I'm aware of it affecting gnome, but at the moment I see it as GNOME replacing > esd. Does it have a wider impact on the distro that I'm not aware of? > > I'm not aware of anyone writing a PA backend for Phonon yet. > PulseAudio replaces esd, true, but it offers many new features, not present in arts AFAIK, that, I think, could benefit KDE also. If there are no plans in upstream KDE, I guess we'd keep it as a GNOME thing only, although we are going to patch some non-GNOME apps, like jack, so I guess it would be good to be using the same sound server everywhere. -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo(a)novell.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Accessible installer
by Hans Petter Jansson 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

The GNOME team set up a wiki page for 11.0 ideas. One of the requests is for accessibility options to be available in the YaST installer, in particular: * Screen magnifier - shows a magnified version of the portion of the screen you're pointing at. * Screen reader - reads the labels and input text out loud. * Braille output - provides tactile display of labels and input text via a special device. In GNOME, we use Orca to accomplish this, together with the at-spi infrastructure. It is a Python app. I don't know what Qt/KDE uses, but I imagine something similar. So I have some questions for the YaST/installer guys: * What accessibility technologies are available in the installer today, and how are they configured? * If we're missing accessibility functionality, how feasible would it be to implement it for 11.0? * Given that the installer is a Qt app, what technologies could we use? Also see http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.0#Accessibility -- Hans Petter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] YaST Extension: Progress with Icons
by Lukas Ocilka 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, I've just implemented a new feature of the YaST 'Progress' module: | Icons shown during the progress run | I hope you find it useful and that we get more icons to the UI to make it brighter, cooler, and ... ;) See this article with screen-shots: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Progress_With_Icons (This feature is available in yast2-2.16.16 and later) Bye Lukas PS: It's currently implemented by replacing images with another ones but it would be better if there was a native Qt/GTK support for making images gray-scaled (initial state) and then make them colored again (active). Would it be possible? Thanks. -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o., Lihovarska 1060/12, Praha 9, Czech Republic

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[opensuse-factory] New article: Installation on MiniLaptop Fikar FJ
by Lukas Ocilka 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, A new article about installing openSUSE 10.3 on MiniLaptop Fikar FJ has been just finished: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_on_Chocolate_Laptop It can possibly help others when debugging installation on similar piece of hardware. Bye Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o., Lihovarska 1060/12, Praha 9, Czech Republic

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