January 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] 11.2 Release Notes
by Karl Eichwalder 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

It would be good if we would start with collection release notes snippets for 11.2 now. Do not hesitate to provide input! Here is some background information: http://en.opensuse.org/Release_Notes -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- 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] Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) for openSUSE.
by Egbert Eich 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Folks - In yesterday's discussion about the future of SaX2 it has been requested that changes that will affect users in the future are communicated to the openSUSE community early. KMS (kernel mode setting) integration would be such a feature, thus I would like to announce this here and one step further dive into a technical discussion about a possible solution. Furthermore test packages are available to try things out on Factory. I would like to encourage people interested in development and technical discussions in general to participate in the discussion and the development efforts. Kernel Modesetting (KMS) ======================== All of you who are using a graphical desktop on Linux have been using the X Window Sytem. The X Window System Server (XServer) is the instance which receives requests from your desktop applications to draw all the widgets (windows, buttons, images etc.) you see on your desktop. It also processes input from your keyboard and mouse and sends them to applications as events. Traditionally on Linux the XServer does not only draw images to the screen (ie writes them to some sort of frame buffer) but it is in charge of initializing, setting up and driving the graphics hardware. This paradigm which has been true since the X Window System has been ported to Linux is about to change: Much of the initialization, set up (video mode setting) and control of the graphics hardware is about to move to the Linux kernel. There are a number of advantages to this: - A central instance is in charge of the graphics hardware, other user mode applications (not just the Xserver) can take advantage of mode setting. - The Xserver will no longer require full root privileges as it doesn't talk to the hardware directly any more. - Faster boot process: The Xserver doesn't need to (re)initialize the graphics hardware any more, this is all done by the kernel very early in the boot cycle. - Smoother (flicker free) boot experience: The screen doesn't flicker and changes resolution any more when the Xserver starts. - One central entity is in charge and manages the resources of the graphics hardware - like the video memory which makes sharing of these resources between several applications (like Xserver and several DRI (Direct Rendering 3D) applications much easier. KMS is integrated in the DRM drivers. In the near future most graphics driver will switch to KMS: - Intel already ships a fully working KMS driver. Future Intel chipsets will be supported by the KMS driver only. - KMS in the Radeon DRM driver is still work in progress but it is already working well on some chipsets. - Noveau is relying heavily on KMS for their free 3D driver for NVIDIA chipsets. The proprietary ATI and NVIDIA drivers are unlikely to switch to KMS in the near future. Integration in openSUSE ======================= Now this begs the question what we have to do to integrate it into openSUSE. Originall I had plans to look into this for openSUSE 11.2 already - but then I got side tracked by other stuff it fell on the floor and noone else beat me to it either ... oh well. Now I had the chance to play around with KMS a little and came up with some ideas and a proof of concept. It turned out that the changes to openSUSE needed to fully support KMS are quite small. Key is to load the KMS aware DRM driver as early as possible in the boot process to avoid video mode changes later in the boot cycle - preferrably in the initrd. The Boot Process ---------------- On openSUSE the boot loader is configured for two boot scenarios: default and failsafe. The user can select the failsafe boot scenario in case the default scenario does not work for him. In the failsafe scenario certain features are deactivated which have shown to cause problems on some systems. Since KMS is a new feature it is a candidate for deactivation during a failsafe boot. Instead the system should then boot into the VESA framebuffer mode. Should this also fail the kernel will automatically fall back to a VGA text mode. To disable KMS on boot a new boot parameter is introduced: 'nomodeset'. This parameter is to the boot command line for the failsafe mode. The user may add this parameter by hand for any other boot mode. The kernel command line is parsed in initrd and an appropriate entry is created in /etc/modprobe.d/options. Furthermore the graphics driver module and - if required - the agp module(s) are added in the correct order (agp modules first) to the list of modules to be loaded initially. Changes to individual packages ============================== 1. yast2-bootloader & perl-Bootloader ------------------------------------- The boot parameter 'nomodeset' is added to the failsafe boot paramter lists in each of the modules. (I have not been able to find out which module provides the entry relevant for which situation, therefore I've whacked both.) yast2-bootloader updates the variable FAILSAFE_APPEND in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader appropriately. 2. kernel-source ---------------- To use KMS for a certain DRM driver the kernel config option CONFIG_DRM_<driver_name>_KMS needs to be set to 'y'. At the moment we will support KMS only for Intel hardware, thus only the variable CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS needs to be changed. In the sample build this has been enabled for the -default, -desktop, -pae, -debug, -trace and -vanilla kernels for the i386 and x86_64 platforms. The kernel boot splash has already been fixed for KMS for openSUSE 11.2. 3. mkinitrd ----------- This package writes the initrd file. To add KMS support to the initrd mkinitrd needs to perform the following tasks: 1. Check the sysconfig variable NO_KMS_IN_INITRD, if set, don't attempt to install a KMS DRM capable driver. 2. Obtain a list of PCI devices installed on the system. 3. a. In the list of PCI devices identify those devices which are of class VGA and look for a matching driver. b. Before a driver is matched check the PCI vendor, device, subvendor and subdevice ids against a blacklist in /etc/kms/blacklist should this file exist. This file contains one vendor, device, subvendor and subdevice id per line, '*' serves as a wildchar, trailing wildchars may be ommitted, '#' at the beginning of a line serves as a comment. c. Use the standard modprobe alias mechanism to find a matching DRM driver module. This way standard blacklistings of kernel modules will be honored and update modules will be searched if they are available. KMS capable DRM drivers provide an alias list (in contrast to non-KMS capable DRM drivers which are to be loaded explicitely by the Xserver). d. If a driver is found check for a black listing in /etc/kms/<driver_name>.blacklist. The same rules as in 3 b. apply. 4. If a KMS capable DRM driver is found search for an agp driver: a. Obtain a list of all known agp drivers for the specific kernel and collect their alias lists. b. Match all installed PCI devices against the alias lists of each agp driver. If a match is found add the driver to the lists of modules to be loaded. Make sure that this driver is loaded prior the the DRM driver. Two scripts setup-kms.sh and boot-kms.sh are added to mkinitrd. The former performs the tasks listed above, the latter provides the required module dependencies in the required order, parses the boot command line for the 'nomodeset' option and adds the apropriate entry to /etc/modprobe.d/options. The linuxrc script is extended to search the boot command line for <drivername>.<option>=* strings for each driver loaded in initrd and add the <option>=* part to /etc/modprobe.d/options. 4. udev ------- Udev loads any modules which are not loaded by linuxrc scripts directly. It is possible to let udev load the required DRM and AGP modules provided it is made sure that this happens in the correct order. Since there is no explicit dependency of DRM modules to AGP drivers as there is no general one to one match between the two drivers a udev rule must exist to enforce the correct order for all cases where a AGP module is required. This is true for Intel DRM drivers and any other driver for an AGP graphics chip. For this a rule file 79-waitfor-agp.rules is added which is run before 80-drivers.rules. It checks if either an Intel graphics (class VGA) device is processed or if the graphics device is an AGP device. The latter condition is tested by an auxiliary tool (is_agp) which is passed the kernel name of the event device. If either condition is true udev will wait for /dev/agpgart to appear before proceeding to load a DRM driver module. 'is_agp' checks the capabilities flags in the PCI config space of this device for AGP. The changes to udev are not strictly required to make KMS work, still they augment the default module load process Installation ============ Modified packages for Factory of - kernel-source, - mkinitrd, - yast2-bootloader, - perl-Bootloader, - mkinitrd - udev can be found in my build service home on OBS under home:eeich:Factory-KMS. For installation add http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://eeich://Factory-KMS/openSU… to your installation repository and update the packages in question (going thru the usual vendor change hassle). It is advisable to update mkinitrd before updating the kernel. Then when the kernel is installed the modified mkinitrd will be used and all steps required to install KMS will be performed. TODO ==== - The kernel bootsplash sometimes produces wrong colors (WIP). Add KMS - Add KMS support to the RadeonHD driver. Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.suse.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] [ANNOUNCE] Will update PackageKit to 0.6.1 in Factory next week
by Vincent Untz 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi, Looking at the git log from PackageKit, it looks like Scott managed to fix the build of the zypp backend -- which was the reason we were stuck with an old PackageKit (0.5.1). So we'll put the next release of PackageKit in Factory (0.6.1, due next week, I think). Note that this changes the API (at least deprecated API were removed) and therefore will possibly break tools using PackageKit that were not prepared for this. You can take a look at the NEWS file for more details: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/tree/NEWS As far as I know, there are two major consumers of PackageKit: gnome-packagekit (which should be fine) and the KDE update applet (no idea what the status is here). Is it an option to not update PackageKit? Not really: the version we have is old, not really maintained, and my guess is that we'll soon have tools that will require the new stuff there. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- 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] udev/rules errors
by Donn Washburn 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hey Group; I must be one of the only people that uses a non graphic bootup. Due to this error on several machines I am letting you know because it is a very simple fix. Goto /etc/udev/rules.d and change SYSFS to ATTR. It will solve bunches of /var/log/warn errors. This is in 11.2 and .3 -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " 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 -- 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] Status: distribution
by Stephan Kulow 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, I'm in the process of testing the first DVD builds, so far it looks okayish for the first milestone. The list of known bugs will be longish, but we have to start somewhere. The last factory live cds that built are almost a week old and I had to remove 3 languages to free space for the grown software all around - we need to reevaluate later if we want to readd languages or rather keep the programs. Michl just started evaluating 11.3 features, as in the past please help by looking around in the feature list and vote for and against those you want to see - but please leave out comments with simple math statements. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] BURG instead GRUB/GRUB2 in openSUSE 11.3
by Rastislav Krupanský 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hi. One of the most wanted features in Ubuntu Brainstorm [1] is a brand new project BURG [2]. Have you heard about it? What do you think? Could it be used in 11.3? [1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23261/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/burg/ -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- 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] Unabe to start KDE Live CD M1 in VMware
by Rastislav Krupanský 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi First of all, thanks for finally releasing M1. For the second, i can´t boot M1 KDE live cd into KDE desktop in VMware :-( Before loading KDE desktop, system hangs. Just a black screen. Does anyone have also the same experience? -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- 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 maintainer of Factory/News
by Stephan Kulow 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi, I have a Junior Job for one of those that would like to help, but haven't found a way yet: Factory/News is a wiki page that needs regularly updates as package versions in Factory change. Beineri used to maintain it, but ran out of time and I can't find the time to do it properly either. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/ has all the details, but it would be good if someone monitored it to pick the highlights. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] Factory/News input
by Stephan Kulow 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

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[opensuse-factory] Status: distribution (2)
by Stephan Kulow 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi, software.opensuse.org/developer has the link to the ISOs and factory-snapshot was updated to the current factory. Feel free to start testing, I go home now and work on the rest after having slept some more - so we can announce to the wider audience tomorrow :) Greeings, Stephan -- 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 11.3 Milestone 1 and KDE 4.4 RC2 Announcements
by Andi Sugandi 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi Listmates, It's nice to announce to (local) community what is happening of their Linux distribution's development and finally get more contributors to help it. Now I'm just curious why there were no announcements of the openSUSE 11.3 M1[0] and KDE SC 4.4 RC2 on net? Also, i can see the KDE SC 4.4 RC2 packages on KKFD, but no of openSUSE 11.3 M-1 (it still has openSUSE-release-11.3-1.17). Are they delayed for some reasons? [0] http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Release_Schedule#January_20th.2C… Thanks in advance. Best regards, -- Andi Sugandi (Bandung) openSUSE Ambassador http://en.opensuse.org/User:Andisugandi -- 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] bugzilla error
by Daniele 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, adding comment to bug #568934: Software error: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction [for Statement "UPDATE bugs SET keywords = ? WHERE bug_id = ?"] at Bugzilla/Bug.pm line 725 Bugzilla::Bug::update('Bugzilla::Bug=HASH(0x29908c0)', '2010-01-26 18:34:10') called at /shared/bugzilla/docroot/process_bug.cgi line 617 Known problem ? Bye. -- *** Linux user # 198661 ---_ ICQ 33500725 *** *** Home http://www.kailed.net *** *** Powered by openSUSE *** -- 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] 11.3 roadmap
by Stephan Kulow 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, As I said, I want to start 11.3 development "for real". So I put up http://www.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_11.3/ [1] and updated the roadmap in the wiki. From my point of view the long beta and RC phase paid out, so I would like to continue with that. Meaning * Thu, Jan 21 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 release * Thu, Feb 11 openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 release * Thu, Mar 04, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 release * Thu, Mar 25, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 release * Fri, Apr 09, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 release * Thu, Apr 22, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6 release * Fri, May 21, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7 release * Thu, Jun 17, openSUSE 11.3 RC 1 release * Thu, Jul 01, openSUSE 11.3 RC 2 release * Thu, Jul 08, openSUSE 11.3 Goldmaster * Thu, Jul 15, openSUSE 11.3 Public Release This translates into a feature freeze first week of april (right in time for GNOME 2.30.0) and RC freeze first week of june. The milestones do not come at a fixed rythm because of easter and other holidays that fall into this time period, but there are enough of them to fall back in line if one of them is late. I put the holidays into the timeline, so you can have a look if you want to suggest changes - but if someone mentions KDE and 4.5 together in a reply, I'm going to gently ignore the full email. Updating to patch level releases during the beta phase we consider of course. Greetings, Stephan [1] www.suse.de syncs out every couple of hours, as I'm writing the mail the content is old. If the title talks about 11.2, you'll know. -- 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] LXDE : current status (what is done and missing things i CANNOT fix)
by Andrea Florio 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok people, yeasterday i got finally accepted into Factory the latest 2 LXDE packages, LXDM and xmms2 (and now lxmusic can finally build) yast2 pattern icons has been already pushed into yast svn: [1] and even the new pattern has been submitted for merge into gitorious [2] Jiri Srain, from yast developers told me that before upgrade obs yast2-theme package he want to be sure new pattern is already merged into his package, so i wonder to know who and when is supposed to review such merging request (i'm asking because it's almost time for the first mile stone and i would like to begin testing as soon as i can) just a couple of other things. Can somebody change this feature [3] status? it's no more Unconfirmed. And to finish, now we also need LXDE as Component in bugzilla (openSUSE >= 11.3) i will be the bug owner Regards Andrea [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-commit/2010-01/msg00267.html [2] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/patterns/merge_requests/1 [3] https://features.opensuse.org/307729 - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktZcsMACgkQyCZT87TFPuivsACdHbIeW4yQ9nVv4OTapcyG45bB rOMAoKcQkkEde9JFWR0MOrmqGn1Ajs9H =3GpO -----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] manual for console modes while KMS=yes
by Felix Miata 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Now that my Factory is using (32 bit) 2.6.32-desktop, apparently using KMS by default, my i845G consoles, after starting in their usual vga=0x305 1024x768 mode, jump into some lowfi mode that is or approximates 640x480. I get same result with i915.modeset=1. No man pages for randr, framebuffer or kms, and man page for kernel does not address kms. Nomodeset on the kernel line makes consoles behave OK, but X cannot find any screens with a usable configuration (no kernel modesetting driver detected). How do I keep whatever benefits I'm supposed to get from KMS and yet initialize tty[1-6] back the way I'm used to, and have them stay that way, or can I? Is KMS broken for older Intel chips? (currently I have X starting @ 1600x1200x16bpp) Note, it seems pae kernel does not yet have KMS. If I boot it instead, vga=0x305 works as before, but X cannot find any screens. With desktop kernel, i915.modeset=0 on kernel line causes same behavior as pae kernel. http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Search?search=kms&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Go got me only 4 hits, none of which seem to be docs in an expected form, but did point me to Eich's KMS announcement post on this list, where I found we using openSUSE are to use nomodeset instead of nokms like with other distros' KMS kernels. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.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] FActory [Gnome and Evolution Issues]
by Marco Calistri 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi, Latest Factory holds two major issue (on my machine of course!) 1) By setting /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager to "gdm" then the DM stuck on and nothing starts. To solve this, I have to choose "kdm" on both configurations files, then I can login onto Gnome DM. 2) Evolution starts briefly, than crashes, when it asks to input the security password (wallet) Sorry: no time now to file this onto bugzilla, hope somebody could check and do it for me, if really necessary. Cheers! -- Marco Calistri http://mcalistri.blogspot.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] PCmanFM and openSUSE-Factory : how to go on?
by Andrea Florio 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PLEASE add as 'TO' or 'CC' PCMAN mail too. Hi lists, I have a dilemma and i need your help! let me explain the status and then let me ask questions: pcmanfm (0.5.2) is the LXDE file manager, it's fast and lightweight BUT it actually miss trash and gvfs support, in addiction it depends on FAM/GAMIN, and still use hal to mount devices. lxde developers are now developing the NEW pcmanfm (formally called pcmanfm2, but in "about" i read "pcmanfm 0.7"). This new version add lots of features, fix bugs, but most of all "remove" all the "BUTs" pcmanfm 0.5 has. I talked with PCMAN (main pcmanfm developer as you can easly guess) and looking at our Roadmap [1] (i considered M5 or M6 as last option) he sed the new pcmanfm2 should be realeased as stable) i have this question than... should openSUSE 11.3 provides pcmanfm or pcmanfm2? That is what may happen in both cases KEEP pcmanfm: 1st) Because it depends on FAM/GAMIN (and suse provides fam by default), the earlyxdm script MUST add FAM service as Required-Start (or maybe Should-Start, i don't really know where) 2nd) It will be obsolete before 11.3 will be released PROVIDE pcmanfm2 We will provide in our early Milestones releases for testing beta packages of pcmanfm2 and libfm (libfm is a pcmanfm dependency), but here i see ONLY benefits: 1st) we'll help lxde developers providing more testing (and speeding up development) 2nd) we don't need to touch earlyxdm script 3rd) we'll have a better filemanager (with gvfs and trash support and without HAL) 4th) openSUSE 11.3 SHOULD be out with the STABLE version of pcmanfm and if NOT we may use official updates to provide stable version later (has we already did with firefox and thunderbird) 5th) will be much easier maintain and fix bugs. So lists.. what is you idea here?? [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktcJRAACgkQyCZT87TFPui+tACfWwcFGcoADrjCnqCN06EIXdUr kMAAnRkVk/seAlNucF/MSuCqZCjYPu9h =XkUq -----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: [opensuse-project] LXDE : current status (what is done and missing things i CANNOT fix)
by Andrea Florio 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you guys, i'm really happy you like my work, i'm just trying to give back to my favourite distro what it gave me for several time. but know i need your help, i simply can't go on alone because i don't know what exactly do, or simply, i don't have yet "root powers". ooooh btw.. rember to join opensuse-lxde mailing list :P (opensuse-lxde@ opensuse.org) regards Andrea Il 22/01/2010 13:58, Pavol Rusnak ha scritto: > On 01/22/2010 10:55 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 01/22/2010 10:41 AM, Andrea Florio wrote: >> >>> Ok people, yesterday i got finally accepted into Factory >> >> Way to go Andrea! Great work. This is a nice example on how to push >> forward. Don't wait for "them" to shape your distribution, do it >> yourself. openSUSE has all the tools, all the processes and all the >> people lined up to make this possible. You just have to grab this chance! > > Yes, Andrea, you did impressive amount of work! Thanks for you > contribution and for providing the others a shining example they could > follow! > >> >> Thanks again Andrea. You rock :) >> >> Henne >> > > - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktZzpwACgkQyCZT87TFPugwSgCggC2PYYn3+4rwo8ZpjBns+NjO hSsAmwcmQ5Ir97ASabGrRi2DCpiD14ab =AjNn -----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] HAL/DeviceKit in 11.3?
by Will Stephenson 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

When are we planning to remove HAL from the distribution? Apparently other distributions are already working on this for their next releases, and if we are planning the same, I'd like to know about it well in advance so the implications for applications using HAL are clear. Will -- 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] EFI Boot / Boot Diskd creating
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hello, SLES 11 Please can any tell and help me to create the EFI boot disks in the Readme /boot /x86_64 the example is not working ? I have always the Error: No directory slots ? Copy failed I do a copy to the disc (HD) and test this again, Error? Also the Support README in Novell forum is not working, on the DVD is no EFI boot option ? -- 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] How do I use gcc-4.5 and g++-4.5 on opensuse-factory?
by Paul Elliott 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

I am using opensuse-factory, (indirectly thru opensuse-buildservice) to build a project. What do I have to put on the "./configure" lines and "make" lines to make it use the alternate compiler =gcc-4.5 and g++-4.5? I am asking this here because I do not have thefactory distro and can not cousult the docs. CC=gcc-4.5 CXX=g++-4.5 ./configure #blah blah blah did not work! -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott(a)BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117

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[opensuse-factory] linphone
by Hans Witvliet 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

question, on the obs** the most recent version of linphone is 2.1.1, while 3.2.1 is already out quite a while and build flawlessly on 11.0 and 11.2 repo/home:/RedDwarf:/branches:/network:/telephony/ repo/network:/telephony /pub//opensuse/factory/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ major changes: - video - ipv6 Any chance for the latest versiion in 11.3? -- 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: [opensuse-packaging] is ghostscript able to be updated to 8.70 was GPL v3 question
by Dave Plater 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:20:13PM +0200, Dave Plater wrote: > > Hi, I've come across my first license problem with ghostscript-8.70, it > > has switched to GPL v3. There are a lot of packages that depend on > > ghostscript, lilypond being one and apparently TeXLive sub packages. How > > are problems like this resolved. Having an old ghostscript version isn't > > good for attracting people to the distro. I'm totally in the dark about > > these things but as a packager I need to know about them. > As long as the program calls "gs" via system it is just use and does not impose license requirements the calling programs. Most of those programs do it that way. I am not aware that ghostscript exposes libraries? > > I am not aware that ghostscript exposes libraries? > Yes, it does -lgs and -lijs, package ghostscript-library The above is added for the factory list This post follows :- I have a complete gs-8.70 package waiting to be submitted but what happens in a case like this? Is ghostscript doomed to packman or even worse out of linux altogether or is there a way of sorting this issue out. Fedora already has gs-8.70, maybe they overlooked the fact that the license had changed. It would take a few linux distros to make the ghostscript people change back to v2. List of affected files, I can find :- Uses gs_lib : capi4hylafax, hylafax Uses pstoraster : gutenprint Uses libgs.so : foomatic-filters, libspectre1 Uses libijs.so: gutenprint Regards Dave P -- 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] Lenovo ThinkPad T60 mouse input problem with 11.2 installation
by Mindaugas Vaiciulis 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hello, i have just tried to install suse11.2 to Lenovo ThinkPad T60 and nor my mouse (some MS, later Logitech) nor laptop integrated buttons didn't work, although i could move a cursor. So i had to install using only keyboard and can confirm this function works :) -- 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] monotone
by Thomas Keller 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi all! Please consider my SR for monotone, the distributed version control system (ID: 29018). This package was once part of the base distro of openSUSE, but probably got removed because unclear package maintenance and build problems. monotone is licensed under GPLv2 and has been around since 2004. It is one of the first distributed version control systems, from which git, Mercurial and all the others borrowed lots of ideas. It has almost 550 functional and many unit tests, not a single critical (read: data-loss) bug in the years since its beginning, is extensible and scriptable with Lua and has a rock-solid implementation in C++. Thanks, Thomas. -- GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | tommyd3mdi(a)jabber.ccc.de | http://thomaskeller.biz Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en

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