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[opensuse-kde] KDE 4.7.0 on openSUSE 11.4
by upscope 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Is anyone experiencing long delayand extreme memory and disk usage on start of kmail in kontact? Example this morning: Took eight minutes before keyboard, mouse etc would respond. then another 2+ minutes for gui to display message all ready downloaded yesterday. Clicking on a message displayed a screen in the message window saying: Retieving folder contents (30 messages), never came back with contents. tried smaller folder 4 messages never back after 15 minutes. Killed kontact. During the above mentioned 8 minutes: CPU 1 100% at 1.596 MHZ CPU 2 100% at 1.596 MHZ Mem 100% of 7.996 MiB SWAP 21% 0f 10.236 MiB This was after clicking get new messages. Normally my system runs CPU 1 4-9% CPU 2 4-9% Mem 7-13% of 7.996 MiB SWAP 0% Updated KDE to the released version of 4.7.0 from repo Download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release/47/openSUSE_11.4 was running 4.6. (see Below for configuration) Running Kontact 4.7.0-9.4 Kmail 4.7.0-9.4 Questions: 1. Can I dropback to 4.6 version of kmail 2. I get a timeout on plasma? 3 Could Amarok cause this? It uses 49% cpu at startup but drops back fast. I'm sending this from Seamonkey MAil since Kmail is totally useless. I will wait until 4.7.1 finishes building for 11.4 in factory and try it. Then turn in bug if it also fails. I have 4.7.1 installed in 12.1 MS 5 with no problems (It on a seperate disk, same system. Also ran 4.7.0 with 12.1 MS4 no problems. Thanks for any response. ------- Russ openSUSE 11.4(2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop)|KDE Platform Version 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 7"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.21_k2.6.37.1_1.2-6.1) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Testing: DVD vs. CD and kernel 3.0
by Roger Luedecke 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

I vaguely remember saying I would do some testing, but as I need my computers to be functional and they are too weak to run a VM this hadn't come to fruition; until now. I was checking out Mandriva, and though it had a lot of promise it sucked in critical ways... thus I had to reinstall. For some reason all I had was a CD ISO of openSUSE. Which was fine since I wanted to get some fresh notes between the discrepancies of the DVD and CD installs. In the course of the first reinstall I decided to try Kernel 3.0 since the reviews were positive enough for me to feel safe To keep it simple here is a list, plus I'm a little drunk. KPackageKit/Updater Does not work in DVD install (at all), works perfectly in CD install(everything). NetworkManager DVD install ye olde KNetworkManager, CD installs Plasmoid. I remember from before there being discrepancies in the behavior of samba betweenst the two. As I have no systems on the network that are able to communicate in that fashion anymore, I cannot pinpoint these. I did however get some help from a fellow on IRC for getting samba to work between openSUSE and my roomies Mac. He was very helpful, I would recommend somebody trying to get some feedback from him on samba. He is "kukks" on IRC. **** **** **** My experience with Kernel 3.0 was fairly positive. Power consumption was down, heat was down, noise was down. Speed slightly up. Weird 30 second countdown in the boot, "connecting." Only managed to load RPM NVidia driver once. I found no application anomalies with using that kernel. I hear there are some vicious problems with the Sandy Bridge architectures, and would recommend adding some sort of release notes to the SUSE welcomer thingy that pops up after a fresh install. I attempted Tumbleweed and got alot of strange errors in the boot process, but since I was having trouble getting to a graphical interface to begin with (thanks to removing the Nouveau driver) I could not be sure if they were critical. Some miscellaneous notes: It seems the brcm80211 driver has come a long way, since it isn't causing any kernel panics anymore. However, it behaved typically off the LiveCD... but after installed behaves superior to the WL driver. This could be due to upgraded kernel (I don't think so) or because its pulling configuration from the unformatted /home partition. I must make note, that whatever the reason it works correctly it is faster by a wide margin to connect to the WIFI. Nouveau is much much better. I imagine that in a years time I may no longer bother to install the proprietary driver. I have discovered some boot arguments that make my netbook run cooler, and the reports all over the web are similar. acpi_osi=Windows or Linux have a cooling effect... they seem to both be equal. There was another one that I was made aware of that I observed no definite effect from; I'll look it up later. I would have suggested that maybe we should include those arguments in future installs, but 3.0 handles power better for the most part (unless you have sandy-bridge) so it may not be relevant anymore. I think this is everything ATM. I will append this if I remember other things. Om namah Shivaaya! Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] I have lost sound
by Patrick Shanahan 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

x86_64 intel i7 hwinfo --sound: 23: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: u1Nb.WMbVFcSAoD3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0 Hardware Class: sound Model: "Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x3a3e "82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x0041 Driver: "HDA Intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 64 (3098609 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00003A3Esv00008086sd00000041bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 40: PCI 300.1: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: kEn8.Nn1lwzNp6rB Parent ID: 3hqH.eihXhEQXBc4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.1 SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.1 Hardware Class: sound Model: "nVidia Audio device" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0be9 SubVendor: pci 0x196e SubDevice: pci 0x085a Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "HDA Intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0xd2000000-0xd2003fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 17 (1153 events) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000BE9sv0000196Esd0000085Abc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge) Guess I cannot figure it out on my own. I have had sound working correctly since 11.4 install last March, but it is gone and I have not been able to correct it. Some guidance is necessary. I removed all pulse*, restarted rcalsasound to no avail. I ran alsaconfig and restarted sound to no avail. I reinstalled pulse to no avail. There is no sound from kmix -> settings -> audio setup -> test output devices: HDAIntel (ALC892 Analog) HDAIntel (ALC892 Digital) HDA Nvidia (HDMI 0) #3 HDA Nvidia, HDMI 0 (HDMI Audio Output) HDAIntel, ALC892 Digital (IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output HDAIntel, ALC892 Analog (DefaultAudio Device) HDA NVidia (HDMI 0) #7 HDA NVidia (HDMI 0) #8 HDA NVidia (HDMI 0) #9 all tested w/o success backend is set to Xine, but VLC and GStreamer were also tried w/o success. HELP, please. tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Can Kontact do CalDAV?
by Malte Gell 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi there, I have severe issues with syncing my Google calendar with Kontact2 with the Google akonadi way. I thing CalDAV would be an alternative, Thunderbird can do CalDAV just fine with Google calendar. Can Kontact2 ( KDE 4.7.0) do CalDAV as well? If yes, can it do both ways, uploading new appointments to Google calendar server and download from Google? Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Wrong xauth? WHY?
by Anton Aylward 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I don't know what to do about this. I ssh from my openSuse 11.4 machine where I have a Konsole session running to my new Fedora 15 box hat I have already done the ssh-copy-id thing. I get this message /usr/bin/xauth: /home/anton/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored It *IS* so writable! $ ls -l .Xauthority -rw-------. 1 anton anton 0 Aug 26 10:02 .Xauthority If I chmod to -rw-rw-rw- OR to -rw-rw---- and try again I get /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/anton/.Xauthority I cannot run any X application, I get X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. <application>: cannot connect to X server localhost:10.0 for whatever <application> However when I try ssh or running an application from the openSuse machine to the mandriva 2009.1 file server all goes OK -- Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in. -- Rita Rudner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Clementine replacing Amarok?
by Roger Luedecke 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

https://features.opensuse.org/312784 Mandriva has done this, as have I. I think there are many good reasons to replace Amarok with Clementine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Fwd: [Bug 656144] Root user Qt4 applications not using Oxygen-style by default
by Roger Luedecke 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Why haven't we been able to identify this bug yet? I wonder if its as simple as a missing symlink?

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[opensuse-kde] Plasma Active widgets for openSUSE?
by todd rme 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I know the Plasma Active project is using OBS. However, looking at their packages, they are only being built against openSUSE 11.4 standard. This makes it hard for existing openSUSE users to run and test it. Might it be a good idea to link the packages that are unique to that repo in KDE:Unstable:Playground, moving them to KDE:Extra when the stable release comes? Alternatively, have a repo that only includes the packages that are unique to KDE:Active. That way it is easy for existing users to try out plasma active without having to worry about conflicts. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Taking notes from Mandriva.
by Roger Luedecke 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Taking Notes from Mandriva I recently caught wind that a new version of Mandriva was released. Having checked out the last version on the advice of a good friend, and having been underwhelmed by it I took a look again to see if I could see the magic he spoke of to me. Overall this was indeed a much better release, and were it not for a few show-stopping bugs it may very well have remained on my beloved netbook. One interesting thing of note is that Mandriva has discontinued their multiple versions. They have even abandoned the Gnome environment in favor of KDE. However, their approach was quite unique. Clearly like I had, they too took away some interesting ideas away from Gnome3; and like me were not willing to suffer the bugs. There were a couple interface elements of note. They replaced Kickoff with an interesting full screen ordeal with a document time-line view called SimpleWelcome. Though many don't like the shifting paradigm of including smart phone and tablet interfaces on a desktop, I found its layout mostly comfortable on my tiny netbook. It is very reminiscent of Gnome3. This was part of their new default Plasma panel called RocketBar. The RocketBar is not terribly different from the upstream default, with the exception of SimpleWelcome. I personally did like that their Task Manager was designed so as to only show the application icon, and not a description. As I am fond of docks, I liked this. This is something that should be integrated into the Task Manager as a option. When my friend first told me of Mandriva, he told me that it was all about the eye-candy and polish. This latest release was certainly a good example of that. With a gorgeous new GTK based widget theme, and a simple but elegant set of icons and window decoration Mandriva managed to distinguish itself. But even before that, it is distinguished in its beautiful boot splash, KDM theme, and finally the login splash. Here we can take some pointers seeing as the presentation is encouraging to the new user. They see polish and anticipate a professional distribution. It is of course not a major technological point... but then success rarely comes to the best, but rather to the clever. Now for a brief review of what was under the hood. Mandriva has switched to using systemD, which though not a very obviously faster boot from HD is brilliant when having to boot from Live media. Frankly the prior release of Mandriva was the very very slowest Live boot ever from USB... now it is second in live boot speed only to Fedora. Once again, this may not be critical but it helps. Especially since openSUSE is slow enough when booting from live media as it is, making people think the installer or live boot has frozen. Mandriva also uses the Plymouth splash, which seeing as it resembles the last splash nearly identically I assume it used last time. Since I am unfamiliar with Plymouth vs. Splashy I can only say one should go take a look. There were two show stopping bugs for me, one which we share in some degree. That being the issue with overheating. In Mandriva the overheating was extreme enough to shut my netbook down. From what I understand this is caused by a poor ACPI implementation. One thing that has helped is to add a line pertaining to ACPI into the grub boot options string. We may want to add one of these parameters by default. I apologize for the verbosity of my letter, but considering the number of points I wished to bring up felt it necessary. So in an effort to relieve tedium, I hope my letter has been as engaging of a read as I hoped. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] kmail: where is the sender photo in received email header?
by Richard 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, today I was made aware of the following: it used to be possible to configure kmail (or was it normal behaviour) that a photo of the sender was shown in the header block of received email. The photo was placed on the right side. However, in the kmail version that we're using now 1.13.7 that is not done anymore. The picture is configured in the address book. Is this functionalily still available and can it be enabled? -- Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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