January 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Dumb question about xine
by Bob S 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hello SuSE people, The dumb question is xine is a stand-alone package, right? I think it is installed but when I do a rpm query on it, the reply is that it is not installed. Yet with a locate xine, there are about a gazillion files listed so something is there. I then use apt to try and install xine. I get a message that there are two files xine-lib and libxine1 and I must choose one. Apparently they are mutually exclusive. If I choose one the other is uninstalled and vice versa. I presently have lib-xine installed. There does not appear to be a stand-alone xine package. ????? Is this right? The reason for this question is that I cannot open a DVD movie with xine and if I try to use Kaffeine it complains that I do not have the proper codecs. Now, I do have every codec known to man AND libdvdcss installed. I can however, navigate to the vob file and Kaffeine plays it properly. This used to work very nicely in 9.2. Since my "upgrade" to 10.0 it does not. Help me understand/fix this please? Bob S.

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Official SUSE Web Forum - Update 1
by Peter Flodin 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

(Using Pascal's words, as they are [and will probably remain] applicable:) I'm starting a new thread, sorry, but the original one has been hijacked several times and mutated into something unreadable. Current: 1. Do we want/need openSUSE web forum(s) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Answer is: YES 2. Will it take resources away from other SUSE tasks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think it is now time to discuss what resources are required to achieve a forum.opensuse.org which is hosted by Novell. What is the estimated work hours in setting this up, assuming that hardware is available? What current project would person building a forum server be taken from? Do we want it now? (Is anything within 6 months feasible? Especially as the openSUSE staff has a poor delivery track record for things outside the actual distribution - sorry but this is a current reality that will hopefully be soon broken) It is agreed that active moderators will be community members. We need to establish a mechanism for selecting moderators. With clear processes about appointment, removal, responsibilities etc. Do we need to form a web forum project team? With their own temporary mailing list to remove all this from the general list. 3. Do we create a new forum or do we elect one of the existing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Answer: We create a new one. The existing forum community seem not be offended or upset although they may not admit that there is a big benefit in creating our own forum. This exercise has shown that the openSUSE community is a subset of the existing overall SUSE community, with users on this list being isolated (but thinking they are at the centre), and that there is real need to establish openSUSE.org as the centre of the SUSE universe, through all the services at openSUSE.org. 4. Internationalized forums ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Answer: Yes. 5. Wait for and use Novell's proprietary forums ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Answer: No Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin

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puppies arrived home safe.
by Shane Bryan 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Marcia, just a note to let you know that the pups are home safe and sound. No problems on the way home. They;re appitite is not stong, so Iwas wondering what you do to feed them? Do you moisten their food first, or were you still mixing it with alpo? what kind of alpo were you using? They seem to be drinking fine though. No names yet, but will send pictures when we've settled on names. Shane...

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fc-list takes forever! Still upgrading to beta2 after 24 hours.
by Miles Lane 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hello, I have been running the upgrade process for almost 24 hours. Every time the installer upgrades a fonts package, fc-list runs for almost an hour. I have 1Gig of RAM and a huge swap partition, so I can hibernate to disk. procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 3 236 12672 12964 777952 0 0 521 418 450 247 10 5 11 74 Why on earth is fc-list running so long? Unfortunately, I have most of the international fonts installed. Miles

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Question on how to write renaming script
by Rikard Johnels 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hello all. Problem: I plan to rename a few thousand photos with names like imgp4711.jpg and imgp0042.pef to a date indexed version: yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss_nnnn.type where nnnn is a running number from the exif header. and type is the original filetype (.jpg, .pef, .tif etc) I opted for bash, and started lokking around. I have checked google and i have read the man-pages, but i'll be danged if i can understand the syntax. I first tried getting the date and time from the header by doing: head <filename> | strings | grep 200 (to get any line with 200(6) in it.) Result: 2006:01:12 08:09:52 2006:01:12 08:09:52 2006:01:12 08:09:52 (yes i get it three times) I then tried: head <filename> |strings | grep 200 | sed 's/\:/-/g' Result: 2006-01-12 08-09-52 2006-01-12 08-09-52 2006-01-12 08-09-52 Nice! Now i have the dashes done Then i got stuck on how to replace the blank with '_' and remove the trailing two lines. AND this method doesn't give me the frame number New approach: I extract date, time and frame with 'exiftool' which gives me exiftool -f -Date -Time -FrameNumber filename Date : 2006:01:12 Time : 08:09:52 Frame Number : 1845 That gave me all three. Date, time and frame I then suppressed the tags: exiftool -f -S -s -Date -Time -FrameNumber filename 2005:03:28 21:56:15 1865 added " | sed 's/\:/-/g' " to the line and got 2005-03-28 21-56-15 1865 Now i am getting somewhere.. But this is where i get stuck... I haven't found anything i found useful on google, and the manpages on sed, awk, grep and bash is way to cryptic for me. How do i get the three lines joined into 2005-03-28_21-56-15_1865.jpg How do i preserve the file ending? And how do i error check for nonexisting data. If the image doesn't have a correct header the exiftool will output a '-' in that position. Date: - Time: - FrameNumber: - In that case i would want the script to use current date/time and 0000 as the frame... I have almost no programming experience at all, so any pointers fit for a non-programmer is most welcome. TIA -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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record internet radio
by Istvan Gabor 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello all: How could I record internet radio on suse 10? I've tried mplayer but could not make it work. Thanks, IG ________________________________________________________________ Sub Bass Monster: új album 4 év után! Töltsd le, kizárólag a T-Online zeneáruházból! http://zenearuhaz.t-online.hu

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postfix open relay
by it clown 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hi All, How can i secure my postfix mail server not to act as open relay. I am running squirrelmail aswell. Thanks Regards ___________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm http://www.webmail.co.za the South African FREE email service

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X remote server
by Lorenzo Cerini 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

I wish to have an X-remote server and to log in from other workstations, is there any howto? L.

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Battery Monitor not working properly
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

My Battery monitor is acting strange. I have SUSE 10 installed on an IBM Thinkpad Z60m. If I unplug the power cord or boot on battery power I see the battery icon in the system tray but it never updates the usage. If I go to the powersave module in yast and click finished then it updates but only then. After this it fails to update again. If I go into the KDE control panel and click on 'Power control' and then on 'Laptop Battery' the module always has the correct remaining time but the icon in the system tray does not update. Any ideas?

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asus a8v delux +suse 10
by Art Fore 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Since I am not holome 4 days a week, I turn off my computer with the above board with amd 54-bit processor. When I return and turn on the coputer, it often seems to have lost the bios settings and cannot boot. I go into the setup, boot, and it is trying to boot from a floppy, which it does not have. I reset it to the correct drive, and everything will be ok for a few weeks. Any ideas why it would lose its bios settings? Art

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