October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

desktop question
by Doug McGarrett 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

A few days ago, I found the way to change the background color for the titles of icons on the desktop. I can't find it again, and it bugs me, since I have changed the background color of the desktop. What I'd really like to do is make the title background transparent, as it is in Windows XP, but that doesn't seem to be an option. How do I get back to the title background control? (9.3) Thanx, SuSErs! --doug

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[opensuse] I-Net boot disk for 10.2
by John Meyer 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I know it's in beta, but has anybody been able to get the Internet installation disk working for 10.2. I try to do the F3-F4 described on the wiki, but it doesn't seem to work anywhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [SLE] EXT3 Problem
by PerfectReign 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

On Mon, October 30, 2006 5:41 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: > I am using the EXT3 file system. Today, I powered on the machine and > went > into the other room for a few minutes while it booted up. When I came > back, > it turned out that it had come time for an fsck on the disk and the > disk was > so corrupted that it couldn't be mounted in rw mode. <snip> I don't use EXTx but wonder if there was an update which has caused an inconsistancy in your HDD. I had this happen about a year back while under 9.3 on one of my machines running Reiser. About every third time I'd reboot I'd get stuck having to manually fdisk and repair my hard drive. At first I thought it was the hard drive failing, but when I upgraded to 10.0, the problem went away and hasn't re-appeared. I've been using the same hard drive on that machine (now in 10.1) since I first started with SUSE on 9.1 and only saw the issue for about a month last year. You might check with others in the *nix world who are using EXTx and see if they've got a similar issue. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

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[opensuse] Conventional Samsung Monitor not detected
by antares dark 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi, nearly i've downloaded and installed opensuse 10.2 Beta 1 for 64 Bits and my CRT monitor Samsung Model "SyncMaster 550v" wich is very popular in my country, is not detected well. Below is the link to .pdf files in different languages with the specifications of the hard for who can fix that. http://www.samsung.com/download/Model_Select.aspx?type=Monitor&typecode=2&s… basically the specs are: Picture Tube -15 (38 cm) Full square type (35 cm viewable). -90° deflection. -Dot pitch : 0.24 mm (H) / 0.14 mm (V). Synchronization -Horizontal: 30 - 55 kHz -Vertical: 50 - 120 Hz Maximum Resolution 1024 dots 768 lines Active Display -Horizontal: 10.5 ± 0.16 inch (267 ± 4 mm) -Vertical: 7.9 ± 0.16 inch (200 ± 4 mm) Maximum Pixel Clock 65 MHz There's more on the pdf files. Thanks __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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GPS Time Standard and Linux NTP
by M Harris 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

This is a follow-up topic to the NTP thread of a couple weeks ago... for those of you who may be interested in accessing GPS as a time standard for your local Suse NTP server, as an alternative to using one of the primary or secondary external NTP servers. Often folks forget about the GPS alternative. I have been playing with the Earthmate GPS LT-20 by DeLorme (carried by BestBuy and others lately). This GPS unit is nicely compatible with Linux (specifically gpsdrive, and gpsd; both ship with Suse 10) as well as minicom or other serial terminal emulator. The device does not require M$ software, nor does it require proprietary drivers. The device is quite small 6.7cm x 4.5 cm x 1.5 cm, and comes complete with an attached 1.5 m USB cable. The LT-20 is USB powered, self-contained, and communicates outbound over USB using the NMEA ascii standard sentences. These sentences may be parsed by a simple script, or extracted via gpsd via telnet. The LT-20 uses a twelve channel RF receiver chip from SiGE (SE4100L) and the GPS micro controller chip from ST Microelectronics (STA2051). Operation is simple... plug it into an available USB port on your local Suse box and go... The NMEA output sentences can be accessed via minicom at 4800 baud N81 to device /dev/ttyUSBx (where x will be 0 for the first device). Otherwise gpsd can be started after plugging in the unit: gpsd -p /dev/ttyUSB0 By default gpsd uses port 2947. Accessing the NMEA output is as simple as running telnet to port 2947 and pressing the 'R' command to receive 'raw' data. telnet localhost 2947 ... the date and time can be extracted with the 'D' command. Obviously the beauty of the GPS receiver is to be able to provide global positioning for navigation, orienteering, etc... but often computer folks forget that the GPS system is an excellent time standard for a local NTP server, or other time coordination scheme. The myth is that GPS time can not be relied upon because of a leap second snafu. This is not true, however. The failure of GPS time has been in the firmware on GPS receivers (programming errors) not the GPS system, software, or clocks. Fortunately the LT-20 handles the time correctly. Consequently, the LT-20 can be used with your Suse linux system as a reliable time standard for your local server without the need for accessing external NTP servers. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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[opensuse] Identify DSL program?
by Johan Venter 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hello All I have been using OpenSuse for a few weeks but had to reinstall over the weekend. Before I reinstalled, I somehow came across and installed a program that allows you to connect, disconnect, etc.. to a DSL connection. It also displays animated icons to indicate that data is being received or transmitted. I can remember that one can change the background colour of the icon on the task bar and the default was red. Can anybody identify the program? I have searched on Google but cannot find what I'm looking for. Johan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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EXT3 Problem
by Greg Wallace 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I am using the EXT3 file system. Today, I powered on the machine and went into the other room for a few minutes while it booted up. When I came back, it turned out that it had come time for an fsck on the disk and the disk was so corrupted that it couldn't be mounted in rw mode. I had to log in to non-grapchicakl mode and run e2fsck on the disk. It was so corrupted that, after repairing a few sectors (or whatever those low level repair operations apply to) it said there was so much corruption that it had to repair an entire inode. It eventually repaired everything and I was able to boot back up. Normally, when there is a problem of this nature, the errors are fixed on the fly and the boot process just continues with a normal log in. I thought EXT3 was able to do that via its journal in all cases. I used to get hit with this problem quite often under EXT2, but never under EXT3. Is this unusual that EXT3 couldn't recover the disk without me having to run e2fsck? Also, I looked at lost+found and didn't see anything in there so can I assume that everything was recovered, or would I have lost data in this instance? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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OT -- SAS (Serially Attached SCSI)
by Greg Wallace 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Could one of you gurus give me a brief description of what it means to have a SATA-SAS Integrated card in a computer? I assume this somehow allows you to link a SATA drive to a SCSI drive in your machine, but I don't understand what that does for you. Thanks, Greg Wallace

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double characters
by Doug McGarrett 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I find that I frequently get double (or triple) characters when typing into the mailing list, or perhaps other aps. I forget what this is called--something about the repeat setup. Is it possible to slow this down, so as not to have the problem? I am using an IBM keyboard, same as the one on the Windows machine. (This is a noisy KB, but nothing types as well as these do! IBM made good stuff, way back when!) --doug

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[opensuse] Howto save flash files from web with SuSE 10.1
by Joao Paulo Pires 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi, How can I save flash files from web pages? I have SuSE 10.1 Best regards, Joao. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registado no Linux Counter utilizador #412485, http://counter.li.org ---[ mensagem original ]--- de: Silviu Marin-Caea [silviu_marin-caea(a)fieldinsights.ro] data: 30-10-2006 15:51:37 2 para: opensuse(a)opensuse.org [opensuse(a)opensuse.org]; assunto: Re: [opensuse] SPAM: Working on Projects/Marketing stuff on openSUSE/video tutorials On Monday 30 October 2006 13:42, Parth Bakshi wrote: > Hello, > Thanks a lot for your help,rather working on any Wikis or > translations , i would like to work on development ,like feature > development or developing Apps from the scratch,,but in the > How_to_participate page on Opensuse not much is given now.so my query is > where do i look? Whatever applications or improvements you'd develop it wouldn't be necessarily SUSE specific, but rather would work on any distribution. For example you could work on KDE, Firefox or OpenOffice.org. Start with small patches, bugfixes. A start would be to look in bugzilla from Novell/KDE/Firefox or whatever project you'd like to work on, find bugs that you believe you can fix, do that and send the patches. http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Developer_Home or http://bugzilla.novell.com http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/ or http://bugs.kde.org http://www.mozilla.org/developer or http://bugzilla.mozilla.org http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html > And one more thing that i found quite interesting to discuss was that a > Ubuntu Wiki has a facility called video tutorials for ubuntu . Have a > look at http://www.ubuntuvideo.com it consist of all video tutorials > aggregated from the net(google videos,youtube,etc..) now if we can have > such project on opensuse .I believe it would be of great help for amateurs > and non-techies. Can we have such facility?? This is interesting. > And one more thing i felt was lacking on Opensuse was Marketing stuff ,now > few days back i gave a seminar in my college on suse Linux i used my own > slides for that ,But what if some marketing stuff (slides,stickers,cd > artwork,flyer) is available apart from only artwork which is vailable right > now on Opensuse. Novell does those: http://www.novell.com/company/legal/permission/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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