- openSUSE Factory

Re: AVM/SUSE/Novell long-term relationship endangered
by L T Pensch 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Carl-Daniel wrote: > Of the proprietary drivers, all USB drivers could be migrated > to userspace with libusb as Greg Kroah-Hartman suggested. This > would allow to keep them proprietary yet keep them out of the > kernel. Problem solved for them. Are you sure? Greg does not know these devices and their drivers, his statement may be based on some stable knowledge of successful transition projects from kernel to user space *for some other de- vices* but simply taking this as a base to judge upon these ISDN and DSL device is not reasonable. Do you know for sure that libusb performance meets the strict requirements imposed by some of the protocols involved? As far as I understand this game, you will run into problems when trying to implement the required timing and reduce lethal latencies *in user space* for these drivers. How many context/task transactions are acceptible for such a monster while doing 6MB/s DSL from kernel to userspace back to kernel and so forth? Let's face it... Go to eBay, sell your device to some Windows guys, if ever, it will take a long time before you can use your hardware on Linux again. :-( Regards, Lysander Pensch

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ZENWorks Software Installer
by Marcel Hilzinger 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi, is it supposed to work in Beta3? If yes, where can I find a small howto? Marcel

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10.1 Beta 3 - Quanta monitor drivers missing
by David Wright 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I just tried to install Beta 3 on my laptop (Acer Extensa 4100, also known as Travelmate I believe). It requires the Quanta driver for the display (1280x800 LCD), the default LCD values for a 1280x800@60/75Hz don't work - I just get a black screen. I'm currently working through other general settings under Vesa and LCD, but until now I haven't found a single monitor setting which will display anything... Can we please have the Quanta settings back? Dave

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10.1 upgrade alert - wallpapers
by Martin Schulz 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

just wanted to pass on my opinion about the move to take the wallpapers out of the /opt/kde3/share tree and put them into /usr/share. While overall not a bad idea to consolidate the wallpapers, it breaks the user's background config without warning. What's wrong with a simple symbolic link to fix that? Similarly, I had the SuSE93 kdm theme configured, which has disappeared. What's wrong with a package to wrap the backwards compatible bootsplash, kdm themes and defunct wallpapers, and make it such that the user need not break his thumb to get them configured as they were. I understand the idea of 'branding' etc., but personally it annoys me quite a bit. By the way, this is not meant to put down the newest theme, keep up the good work. Thanks! Martin

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KDE_USE_IPV6="yes"
by Marcel Hilzinger 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Could somebody please check, wheter /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager in beta3 still contains this entry. It makes Konqueror on some machines very! slow on 9.X and 10.0. Thanks. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99

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SCSI Workaround
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hello, Know any a Workaround, to install SL10.1 Beta3 on a SCSI system with adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra 2 SCSI, is possible ? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer

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Xgl and Compiz
by Liviu Damian 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi, I want to try the new Xgl features on my computer. I installed Xgl, modified the config files as in en.opensuse.org/Xgl but I can't find compiz. Where is it? Cheers, -- Liviu Damian Phone: +40741226993 Blog: http://liviudm.blogspot.com

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FTP installation of factory
by Frank-Michael Fischer 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Does anyone have an idea, why my installation of the opensuse-factory via FTP fails both ways, when going via internet or from my local rsync mirror? When going local FTP, installation complains there are no packages groups available after choosing Gnome or KDE. When going internet the installation just hangs at "Software Auswahl" without complaining. FMF

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Kerry Beagle Search Feedback
by Stephan Binner 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hello, if you have installed KDE with one of the Betas you may have noticed that there is a KDE frontend for Beagle installed by default. If not, it's the small magnifier in the system tray, keyboard shortcuts Alt+Space oder F12. I would love to see more feedback than as yet how it works for you. The current version 0.06 is in Factory repository and of course on Beta 4. To see if a fault is in the Beagle backend(s) or the frontend you can compare results with the output of console beagle-query or beagle-search (Gtk+). Thanks in advance for hopefully few bug-reports. :-) Bye, Steve

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Package Manager major changes for Beta4 and FACTORY Tree
by Andreas Jaeger 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

We're replacing our package manager resolver library with a new version called "libzypp". This integration is more complex than estimated and therefore we decided: * to have beta4 available a day later than planned * to have an additional beta5 next week * the package manager in beta4 will only have reduced functionality We're still working on the integration of "libzypp" into our tree and hope to have both update and new installation working. Together with libzypp, we get the zmd daemon, the rug command line interface, the zen-updater, zen-remover, zen-installer packages. They all handle YUM sources and additionally Zenworks servers as installation sources. Note that I'm not sure whether YaST sources will still be supported - or only YUM sources. I'll try to figure this out now. IMPORTANT: The current factory tree contains the first of these changes and I advise to not update the yast components from it! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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