December 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Putting openSUSE 10.2 through its paces
by Fred A. Miller 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Sooner than anyone expected it, Novell Inc.'s openSUSE community Linux distribution project has delivered a new version: openSUSE 10.2. As a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user since S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 first appeared in 1996, I decided to immediately give this version a try. I'm far from the only one. According to Distrowatch's page hit ranking of Linux distributions, openSUSE has overtaken long time number one distribution Ubuntu over the past seven days. by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5310810296.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FTP question.
by James Hatridge 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi all... My new web site hoster uses "WS-FTP" to upload to my site. It is only for W$, what should I use with Linux? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] default kde fonts, 10.1 vs. 10.2
by Istvan Gabor 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello all: I have started playing with opensuse 10.2. I noticed that the default kde TT fonts are different from those in SUSE 10.1. As in kde control center the names of the default TT fonts are Sans Serif on both systems I don't know which are the exact fonts that 10.1 and 10.2 uses, respectively. Where can I find this and how I could change it? I want the same fonts on 10.2 that were default on 10.1. TIA, IG ___________________________________________________________________________________[origo] klikkbank - Internetes banki ügyintézés és hiteligénylés a nap 24 órájában! http://www.klikkbank.hu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox's set as desktop background not working
by Behrang Saeedzadeh 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, When I click on the set as desktop background menu item in Firefox, the desktop background does not change. However it works if I select something from Konqueror and set it as the desktop background. Any ideas why this feature is not working from within Firefox? Regards, Behi -- "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition" - Alan Turing Behrang Saeedzadeh http://www.jroller.com/page/behrangsa http://my.opera.com/behrangsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Sun JDK 1.5.10 and JDK 6
by Randall R Schulz 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

On Friday 29 December 2006 18:55, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: > Sure but I was looking for something officially supported by > Suse/Novel... When it comes to Java, there's no real distinction. There is no such thing as support from Novell for Sun's software. All Novell does is package it with the release and integrate it with the /etc/alternatives mechanism. They don't alter or augment the SDK or JRE code in any way. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Sound from browsers stuck in a loop
by Guy 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi all, I'm using OpenSuse 10.1 and the sound system is set up correctly (Alsa & SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card) cause everything plays alright. Quite often I've got this annoying problem with playing clips from the internet be it from Konqueror or Firefox. What happens is that the clip (audio or video) plays and then for no apparent reason about 1 second of the clip gets stuck in a loop and is repeated ad infinitum. The remedy is to kill the nspluginviewer when using Konqueror or to leave the site with Firefox. So you're never sure you can hear the clip in its entirety or not which is damn irritating. Let alone giving a demo about Linux and then having this thing happening. Has anyone witnessed this and better nows what's wrong? Thx, Guy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Make Firefox use xmms for streaming files
by James D. Parra 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, Using Suse 10 and when visiting www.live365.com to listen to music, the xine-kaffiene player launches and errors out saying 'no plug-in to handle this resource'. Personally, I'd rather use xmms. How can I tell Firefox to make xmms the default music player? Many thanks, PS. I do use Xine to play my DVDs, and I'd hate to goof that up. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Boxed Set - Continuous X Server crash-reload
by John Andersen 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

I installed using the 10.2 boxed DVD, (yup it even made it to Alaska) on my old testbed machine, a MicroStar Celeron with built in intel-everything. Seriously, lspci lists everything as intel, including an Intel 82815 video controller, which is pretty standard on low-end machines. I was never able to actually finish the install, because at that point where it reboots into graphics mode, the X server goes into a CONTINUOUS crash loop, and of course there are not even any accounts created at this point to log in and do something about it. Thinking the machine was broken, (and since I was nukeing it to install 10.2 anyway), I grabbed my handy Kubuntu 6.10 disk to see if it would have problems. Short answer: No. Kubuntu works great. This X server crash looks exactly like the X server crash that happens in OpenSuse when you launch Xine (packman) or VLC or anything that tries to do even the slightst cool video out with the ATI cards of recent vintage. You are summarily dumped out of X with no diagnostics or anything. (Somebody please assure me SuSE and or ATI didn't sneak in some DRM crap!!). Kubuntu uses Xorg 7.1. Suse uses 7.2. Anybody else see this kind of loop? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

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Re: [opensuse] Connecting PPTP VPN
by James Knott 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Khanh Tran wrote: > On 12/20/06, James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to set up a PPTP VPN to a customer's site, using SUSE 10.2, >> however, I'm not having much luck making sense of how to do it. Does >> anyone have surefire instructions for doing this? >> >> tnx jk > > Use the instructions from the PPTP Client site: > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-suse-100.phtml > > Then, when you get down to the step about running pptpconfig as root, > install this RPM and dependencies beforehand: > http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel4/i386/libglade-0.17-19.rh… > > > -Khanh Thanks. I'll have to give that a try when I get back to work after New Years. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?
by Kai Ponte 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:29, Fred A. Miller wrote: <snip> > > > Now that they really have backed off supporting KDE (mostly IMHO because > > of the QT license) and opted for GNOME (mainly because of the GTK license > > - aka GPL or LGPL, whatever) and then wonder why no one except a few are > > that enthusiastic about it - could it be as the author said, no real > > maintainers for the GTK project? And now that they have forced SuSE and > > their devs to back off the QT/KDE development they've essentially painted > > themselves (and to an extent us) in a corner. Like the author said - > > pity! (or just braindead - if the shoe fits....). > > Well, SUSE still has quite a few working on the KDE team, and I don't see > that as changing. I read the article too before you posted it and was waiting for an appropriate time to respond, thinking either "the sky is falling" or things are overblown. My question is - and I wonder if any suse developers read the ot list - this: Is novell no longer supporting KDE financially? If not, then are they taking charge of Gnome? It would seem that a company like Novell would be far better off if they took a stand one way or another. Either they start managing the uglier-than-cow-manure Gnome project directly or they continue to support the far-superior KDE. (Not that I'm biased or anything...) I certianly hope that in-fighting does not mean we'll all be relegated to using an inferior system such as Wintendo someday... > > Fred -- kai - theperfectreign(a)yahoo.com www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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