June 2008 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Successful Dualbooting openSUSE 11.0 and Windows Vista
by Nathan Ogden 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

I am able to successfully dual-boot between openSUSE 11.0 RC1 and Windows Vista on my laptop. I am running a Toshiba Satellite A215. Possibly helpful facts: I converted this machine to a dual-boot machine with 10.3. I successfully installed 11.0 Beta 3 (had some other issues that are now fixed); formatted / and /home directories I successfully installed 11.0 RC1; formatted / only am running KDE4.x (default version from KDE4 Live CD) Let me know if you want any further info. Nathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] OpenSuse 11.0rc1 + Windows Vista Dual Boot Success!
by Luis Seidel Gómez de Quero 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear developers, As requested by Stephan Kulow I want to report success on Vista+11.0rc1 dual boot. I've just installed 11.0rc1 and all went fine; recognized my windows partitions, and Vista is available and working on grub boot menu. My machine: Dell XPS M1330 with Windows Vista Home Premium. Core2Duo T7500 2.2GHz 2GB RAM, etc,... Vista is 32bits and OpenSuse11.0rc1 is 64bits. Hope this helps, Luis Seidel --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] RC1 - GDM odd behavior
by Gabriel 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I disabled autologin feature. Now I can't login, every time I type something in the textbox is deleted. Can anyone else confirm this? - -- Kind regards. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIRd/BNHr4BkRe3pIRCHCQAJ9nrd/2SBY3XQEnDN67ksTvWH0o0ACff8Ou KeTuTAMYxPdAKP3YlGs3LHE= =FcTv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioning based on type of installation
by Jan Mate(jek 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lukas Ocilka napsal(a): | Marc Ensenbach wrote: |> Hello, |> |> I would like to suggest an enhancement of the partitioner. The dialog |> where you can select the type of installation (new/update/repair) should |> offer more options which then are interpreted by the partitioner. I |> would like to see something like |> |> ======== |> Installation type |> |> ( ) Install additionally to existing operating systems |> (without touching them) |> |> ( ) Modify [ComboBox with already installed Linux Versions |> on the machine] |> ( ) Install over the selected operating system |> (this will delete the selected operating system) |> ( ) Update selected Linux |> ( ) Repair selected Linux |> |> ( ) Set up a machine with one single operating system |> (this will delete all installed operating systems) |> ======== |> |> Any comments on this proposal? | | Yes, I have some... | | 1.) Where would you like to put "Add-On products"? | 2.) Where would you like to put "Automatic configuration"? | 3.) How would you like to deal with the fact that not all systems are | displayed for upgrade, some partitions are not visible unless u user | selects to "Show all partitions" (those partitions/systems that are | somehow invalid for the upgrade mechanism). I actually like the proposal - but not as a replacement for "Type of install", but as a replacement for "Partitioning" wizard in new installation, which is in many cases just plain old dumb. That would of course mean that "repair/upgrade" options would have to go out. Those are well covered by "Type of install" anyway - user should know in advance whether he wants to update or install fresh, and the upgrade dialog seems to work well enough. Actually, two options would be sufficient: ( ) Install in addition to existing operating system(s) - the default ( ) Replace an existing operating system - which would install over one selected partition (perhaps splitting it in two to have swap) Maybe a third one, "wipe everything and start from scratch", which would be automatically used if the disk is blank. Partitioner should also be more clever with handling "empty" partitions, ~ i.e. existing partitions which contain nothing (or "lost+found", "recycled", "system volume information", ".Trash" and friends), and primarily offer to wipe and format those. And if there is an existing partitioning scheme, it better not touch it, unless it has a good reason to. just some thoughts m. | | Additionally, probing disks and validating systems takes too much time | for every user to disturb with the delay. | | And I'm afraid the dialog is too complex to be understandable for the | first sight. | | It's not wrong trying to design new installation dialogs but you might | stop to think what exactly you want to solve? Isn't more helpful to | design new bullet-proof partitioner wizard dialogs depending on the | selected installation mode and the current disk state? | | There are several use cases but you can't cover them all by one superb | dialog (having the dialog understandable for all users, of course). | | * New installation | | * Disk is blank | (use the whole disk?) | (make a proposal/partition manually?) | | * Some other systems are already installed | (leave them all/remove them/remove some?) | | * Enough space for new installation | (make a proposal/partition manually?) | | * Disk is full | (make a proposal/resize manually/resize what?) | | * Upgrade | (which system?) | | Bye | Lukas | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhFaFIACgkQjBrWA+AvBr8/8QCgsZQQih9Rw1ZUcFSsO69Kmmr1 6ggAn3yGTinC0bTRXm1GPrMCb3PoWSUN =XPf2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Re: please include smbfs support in 11.0
by T.T.J. Pleizier 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Just cifs doesn't do what smbfs did: mounting my netdrive. It continually comes up with an error 20: not a directory. This error is totally besides the point, it just shows that cifs doesn't support all networkdevices. In 10.1 smbfs didn't have the problems cifs has. My guess is that smbmount requires kernel support for smbfs. Theo. Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:08:29PM -0500, Kevin Dupuy wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:20 +0100, T.T.J. Pleizier wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Sorry to be late, but just recently installed 10.3 and I found that smbmount had been left out from the kernel. >>> >>> I used to work with 10.1 which had smbmount included, but I wasn't able to mount my net-drive with 10.3 due to the lack of smbmount in the kernel. Since my net-drive doesn't mount with cifs (all kinds of errors) but does mount with smbfs, I wished Suse 11.0 would support smbfs again (like with 10.1). >>> >>> Thanks for the great product, looking forward to the releas of 11.0! >>> >>> Theo Pleizier >>> The Netherlands >>> >> It's almost certainly too late to make a major change to the 11.0 >> kernel. For 11.1 it could be considered. >> > > smbfs was dropped ... and will not come back. It has been replaced by cifs > in the kernel. > > However, it is totally unrelated to the userland smbmount program I think. > > Ciao, Marcus > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.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] looking for iso-installation-cd Suse 11
by Ralf Prengel 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hallo, Where can I find an ISO-file. It isn't possible her use torrent-services. -- i.A. Ralf Prengel Customer Care Manager Comline AG Hauert 8 D-44227 Dortmund/Germany Fon +49231 97575- 904 Fax +49231 97575- 905 EMail ralf.prengel(a)comline.de www.comline.de Vorstand Stephan Schilling, Erwin Leonhardi Aufsichtsrat Dr. Franz Schoser (Vorsitzender) HR Dortmund B 14570 USt.-ID-Nr. DE 124727422 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Someone has installed the ATI video drivers in Opensuse Beta 2 or 3?
by Juan Erbes 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi! Someone has installed the ATI video drivers in Opensuse Beta 2 or 3 without problems? I Tryed to installa the latest ATI video driver and the compilation of the kernel module fails. It can be affected by starting with the boot parameter pci=nomsi? The graphic card is a Radeon HD 2400, and I have installed the source and headers of the kernel. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] desktop effect question
by Putrycz, Erik 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

If I understand correctly the current gnome panels do enable or disable compiz. So if this is compiz, how to switch from compiz to compiz-fusion? Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Firefox and Flash trouble...
by Nathan Moschkin 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Anyone have trouble with Flash freezing Firefox up and not completely playing videos from certain websites? I had to start Konquerer to get into my myspace e-mail because firefox keeps freezing up when I try to access it, now. It didn't use to... it just started happening today ... and I re-installed flash and everthing. Is this a firefox issue or did one of the suse updates screw with it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [opensuse-factory] Desktop effects......
by Fred A. Miller 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Desktop effects....... > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:12:09 +0530 > From: CyberOrg <cyberorg(a)opensuse.org> > To: opensuse-factory(a)opensuse.org > References: <48445BA7.40606(a)lightlink.com> > <14b026160806030230m23e180d1s745e7ceb848cf14a(a)mail.gmail.com> > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5polish(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> 2008/6/2, Fred A. Miller <fmiller(a)lightlink.com>: >>> I have 11.0 with KDE 3.* working well on this Dell Inspiron 1525 >>> laptop. The >>> desktop effects (Compiz) are quick...nice, and remain until you log out, >>> then they are gone. Is there a fix for this yet? >> >> You can put some simple script to your autostart. >> > > Please do not do this, check out: http://en.opensuse.org/Compiz_Fusion > for how to enable effects. Thanks.....I missed a switch. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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