June 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Save Net Radio
by Donn Washburn 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Hey Group; One of the few pleasure left, is avoid AM/FM "Me Too" stations and listen to the variety of stations and music on Internet Radio. ( like " www.sky.fm and smoothjazz "). Concerning mandated "Royalty rates for webcasters". Please consider going to " www.savenetradio.org/ " and then take action to help reverse this "Internet Radio Equality Act". "Equality"? Next will be VoIP, News sites and on and on. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Suggestions for "1-CD KDE media"
by Gregg Nicholas 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

> * Please test the new 1 CD GNOME and KDE installation media and tell > us how to improve them. Please keep in mind the space constraints. Tried the 1-CD KDE media on one laptop so far. I've tried the Installation options from the menu (Installation, ACPI disabled, local APIC disabled, safe). They all end up at the same place: "Could not find the openSUSE Installation CD." Did not have this problem while installing other distros on this laptop, including Mandriva, Mint, Mepis, and Kanotix. Compaq Presario 710US booting from that CD, using network install failed from http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-sourc… "Installation system does not match your boot medium." "An error occurred during the installation." installing from 1-CD KDE media with "brokenmodules=pata_via" worked - it decided to use via82cxxx automatic settings for X failed but was able to fix with "sax2 -r -i -a" my wifi card not working - "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0110" >From my limited experience, the 1-CD KDE installation could be improved if: 1- a newbie might give up when faced with the installation problem caused by "pata_via". Can this be improved with better hardware detection or with some method that detects the failure and automatically tries an alternative? 2- I remember choosing this wifi card because it used to be supported by Linux. I'll have to dig further into how to get it working. It would seem that wireless networking still needs some improvement. If it can't automatically detect and enable all wifi hardware variations, maybe we can help the newbie with a utility that tries to identify the card and jump to a website with instructions and downloads to enable that hardware. 3- After installation, I tried to add some of my favorite utilities using YAST. Software Management didn't find any of them. Maybe the 1-CD media could automatically add a repository for the Internet installation so that it will be easier for the newbie to add programs? (If that option was already provided during the installation, I must've missed it.) ....Gregg Nicholas --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] [Alpha5] No CD/DVD writer found ?
by James PEARSON 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Hello all, I installed Alpha5 on my T40 Thinkpad and k3b doesn't see my CD/DVD device. I get the following message when I open "No CD/DVD writer found" when I open k3b I have a similar problem in that yast didn't "see" the installation media DVD when I tried to install more packages from the installation media DVD. (The same installation DVD that I used to install Alpha5 on my T40. I also installed Alpha5 under VMware on 10.2 and I noticed the same problem e.g. k3b doesn't see my CD/DVD device. Can anyone else confirm or deny that their CD/DVD device works fine on Alpha5 and that they can burn CD's? BTW, the process of adding update sources and adding / removing packages is a lot faster now. That's an excellent improvement. Regards James --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] torrent
by Hans Witvliet 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Hi, This morning i started torrent for 10.3-A5, One completed, one remains hanging, other won't start (no peers at all) I can still ping tracker.opensuse.org, but i get "unable to connect..." for several hours. Is the site "slashdotted"??? The one completed (bin-i386) i'll remain seeding, but no-one can find it, it's pointless. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] How do I get my package, peless into opensuse?
by Paul Elliott 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

I hope I am sending this question to the right place. I want to know how to get my package, peless into opensuse? Here is an source rpm known to build and run under opensuse 10.2: ftp://ftp.BerliOS.de/pub/peless/OpenSuSE10.2/SRPMS/peless-1.145-0.070609.src.rpm Peless is a simple text file lister. It only displays files and never modifies them. It can display multiple files using a tabbed notebook. It can display international characters. It can search the files for regular expressions or literal expressions. Users can choose the fonts used to display files. By the way, gless and kless (not the Klingon!) do not seem to be distributed with many distributions. http://peless.berlios.de/ -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott(a)io.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117

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[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-ux] Liberation fonts as default
by Martin Schlander 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Den Thursday 14 June 2007 06:02:29 skrev Mohammad Bhuyan: > Just installed Liberations Fonts (Red Hat) and changed KDE Desktop > fonts to use them. I am not using sub pixel hinting and don't plan to > use them due to MS patent over it. > > Now that there is an open replacement for MS fonts to distribute > freely (I assume that is the point of Liberation fonts), I was > thinking if the future distributions install them as default fonts in > Desktop and apps, then it will look good out of the box. Think this is more a matter for -factory than for -ux. Therefore CC'ing. I also think this is something that needs to be reviewed. If it's not ready to be default it should at least be available on repos. In any case we need an official comment on it, and a good reason not to use it, if we won't, or people will automatically assume it's about politics and RedHat. Perhaps liberation fonts can replace Agfa-fonts.. one less proprietary package to worry about. From what I can tell Liberation Fonts is definitely a project we should support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Alpha4 -> Alpha5 DVD i386
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hello, can any apply the delta for Alpha5 ? The Delta is OK (md5sum) The Alpha4 is OK (mdusum) My System breaks after ca. 900MB -- mit freundlichen Grüssen / best Regards Günther J. Niederwimmer --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Webcam Drivers
by Francis Giannaros 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

The Drivers Wishlist[1] seems to have had quite a few requests for webcam drivers over time; would it be possible to get some of these in for 10.3? spca5xx for example is very popular, supports a plethora of webcams[2], is GPL'd, and is already built very well in the build service[3]. I've played with 5 different webcams over the days, and all of them worked perfectly with kopete and that driver. Any thoughts? [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Drivers [2]http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html [3] http://software.opensuse.org/download/drivers:/webcam 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] Grub: Error 23: Error while parsing number
by Felix Miata 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Subject is 2nd line on screen after selecting default entry from Grub menu on first boot after Factory FTP upgrade. 1st line is: root (/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST360015A_5KB0MASE-part19) which matches the root line in the default menu.lst stanza. Neither the failsafe entry at the end of the file nor the carried over entries have this problem, while the one immediately following the default entry duplicates it. -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 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] No torrent for the ppc CD delta isos? (was [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5 Released)
by David Bolt 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:- > >I'm glad to announce openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5. Is there going be a torrent released for the Alpha4_Alpha5-ppc deltas? So far, as of this posting time, there isn't one on the gwdg.de mirror. Regards, David Bolt Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ RISCOS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISCOS 3.6 | SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3a4 32bit --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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