openSUSE Users April 2006

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by Carl William Spitzer IV

How do I convert these into standard displayable jpeg files? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

14 years, 11 months

openSUSE @ Google Summer of Code 2006

by Christoph Thiel

Hi everyone, openSUSE has just been accepted at Google Summer of Code 2006! Quoting http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. What is Summer of Code 2006? Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year. The program's goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations. Since we're looking to find developers around the world (many of whom may have considered creating open source software but havent yet taken the plunge), we felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus our efforts. Further, since no single organization could possibly mentor hundreds of students working on disparate projects, we thought it made sense to spread the work throughout the open source and free software community. We also think that the Apache Software Foundation (for instance) knows a lot more about what an Apache project needs than Google does and is more likely to ensure that an applicant gets the right kind of guidance so they can create acceptable code. 2. When can I apply for Summer of Code 2006? You can apply starting on May 1, 2006. [...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are now looking for ideas, proposals, projects, etc. around openSUSE and SUSE Linux, that could be worked on in Google Summer of Code. As the period of application for SoC is already very short, we need to get our proposals for project online May 1st, 2006, at the latest. So, for example, if you are missing a certain YaST module, or a special feature in the distribution, speak up now! Our proposals will be publish on http://en.opensuse.org/SoC2006 shortly. Regards Christoph

14 years, 11 months

Mozilla Mail mail filter file?

by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

Running 9.2 I have used the GUI message filters substantially and currently have over 100 filters. Some of these filters uncheck themselves and so they are not run the next time a message that matches the filter criteria is received. I am assuming that the details I have entered via the GUI are stored in a text file and I would like to start editing that file directly. I have done some searching through ~/ I have not been able to locate a file that holds the filter information, even in ~/.mozilla. Is my assumption right that I can edit the filters in a text file and if so where/what is this this file called?

14 years, 11 months

Soc@2006: User Restrictions (not Child Protection).

by Peter Flodin

I have a proposal that we don't call this feature Child Protection, or Parental Control or anything similar. In addition to filtering (I would only use whitelisting) what I would like to see is an easy way to configure restrictions for users. I will give a personal example. I have a several computers, one of which is in a central location visible from our kitchen and eating area, and is often used by my 4 year old daughter. I'm quite proud of the fact that she can logon (with username and password) and run Gcompris and Tux Paint, all by herself, (she can't read or write). She is allowed to use this computer whenever she wants, just like she allowed to get pens and paper out and do drawings. Now this computer has connection to the internet, and at the moment I am just relying on her lack of knowledge to get on the internet. In a Microsoft Windows domain there is something called Global Policy, which means on a per user and per machine, I could lock down all sort of settings. eg I could hide control panels, Internet Explorer, ability to get to a command line, various system rights etc by just checking boxes. And it would apply to my selection of users and/or computers in the network. I am well aware that many of these restriction can be setup in Linux, but there is no central tool (that I am aware of) that I can use to do this. eg define these group of settings, restrictions, application settings and apply them to these Users. Peter "Pflodo" Flodin

14 years, 11 months

[10.1Rc2] yast2 problem

by Jens Weisse

Hi, I have a stupid problem with yast. Yesterday I tried an update from 10.1 rc1 to rc2. But now the most parts of yast don't work. For example: Command: /sbin/yast2 sw_single & No such client module sw_single Command: /sbin/yast2 inst_source & No such client module inst_source Command: /sbin/yast2 online_update_setup & No such client module online_update_setup [...] I downloaded older yast packages, installed with "rpm -U --force", run SuSEconfig but it doesn't work :-( I have got no idea how to solve this situation :-( Ciao Jens Weiße

14 years, 11 months

OT: Posting from another unsubscribed address for a subscriber?

by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

Hi all, Sorry for the OT post. I currently have my new email address of hylton(a)conacher.co.za subscribed to this list. I have just also subscribed this address so I can solve the problem I am having. If I receive list mail on the hylton@conacher address, I cannot reply to it from the conacher address bucause my ISP will not route the mail as they autheniticate the sender ie the sender hylton@conacher is not the email address of the connected member on their network and they therefore drop the mail into the ether. Is there a way I can send email to the list that is identified by the ISP as being from the correct paying account and delivered to the SuSE listserver as being from another email address, in this case a suscribed address. Perhaps something like the Cc address(SLE <suse-linux-e-hylton=conacher.co.za(a)suse.com>)? Your assistance MUCH appreciated.

14 years, 11 months

Converting 3gp video format on Linux?

by Clayton

Has anyone tried re-encoging/converting the 3gp video format that is common on most mobile phones? I'd like to be able to convert the 3gp video I have copied off the phone to an mpg format - purely for convenience. It would also be nice if I could convert regular video formats (ie avi ang mpg) for 3gp... I've poked around in the man pages for mencoder and also Googled a bit... loads of Windows utils but no useable hits on Linux. C.

14 years, 11 months

HP nx6125

by H du Plooy

Hi guys, I've been using SUSE for a number of years now, and I'm really happy with it, but recently I bought myself an HP nx6125 notebook, and SUSE 10.0 has a number of issues that I haven't been able and/or haven't had the time to resolve. So now I'm running Gentoo - easiest to get the latest of all packages, but I don't really like it that much. Is anybody using this notebook with any of the (Open)SUSE 10.0 release candidates? If so, what are your experiences? My issues, broadly, are: 1. PCMCIA only works with a card if the card was plugged in *before* booting SUSE. If I plug something in after the OS has loaded, it simply doesn't recognise it. The PCMCIA controller is a stock standard Texas Instruments that uses the yenta_socket module. If I unplug the card, and try to unload the relevant modules to load them again, I always get a <module_name> busy and I can't seem to find out what's keeping it. rmmod somtimes say which module is the dependant one, but at some point I reach a dead end. 2. Wireless: When I copy large amounts of data over wireless network, either with the onboard controller (broadcom, ndiswrapper) or a PCMCIA Netgear WG511T (atheros, madwifi), I will get a console message popping up in KDE saying something like "this computer will now shut down" - almost like someone did a shutdown -h now in the background. 3. Wired (broadcom gigabit, tg3) network doesn't work at all. 4. Sound: It works lovely in general, very sweet sounding card, but it seems like sound mixing is tempramental. I don't know if the card supports multiple audio streams in hardware, or if its' a dmix problem, but if I have a play list open in any sound player, after every couple of songs it would tell me the device is unavailable. Then I just hit play again and it continues as normal. Also, skype. Person on the other side can hear me perfectly, but on my side, after a minute or two, the sound comes out garbled. It sounds just like when something hogs the bandwidth and the stream is broken up as a result, but I've made sure nothing else is running (this is on a DSL line), and it works perfectly for hours on end on my PC with a SBLive! card, even if bandwidth is being burned at the same time. I also have to restart skype after every call, because I get a "problem with sound device" message. I'm aware of the bug in later versions of skype where it doesn't close the sound device after playing the "disconnect" sound, and I've removed that .wav file, but to no avail. Prolbems 1, 2 and 3 are not present in Gentoo (running ~AMD64), so assume it's merely hardware support that wasn't up to scratch for this notebook by the time SUSE 10.0 was released. The sound, however, is still a problem. I'll include my lspci output. Thanks Hans TheLuggage:~ # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff Memory behind bridge: d0400000-d07fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000cff00000 Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000] 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a36 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=10, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a37 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=20, subordinate=20, sec-latency=0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d0801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d0802000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel I/O ports at 8200 [size=16] Memory at d0803000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at 3010 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=06, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00005fff Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d03fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-41ffffff 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d0804000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: 66MHz, slow devsel, IRQ 10 Memory at d0805000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map Flags: fast devsel 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller Flags: fast devsel 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control Flags: fast devsel 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] Memory at d0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0420000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable- 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 1356 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at d0010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at d0012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 40000000-41fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 42000000-43fff000 I/O window 0: 00004000-00004fff I/O window 1: 00005000-00005fff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at d0013000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at d0014000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at d0018000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 02:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 308b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at d001a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Memory at d001b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Memory at d001c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 5b00 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at 42000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

14 years, 11 months

print from K-Mail run together

by Doug McGarrett

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

14 years, 11 months

XEN / Win XP / VT status?

by Greg Freemyer

All, I'm very intriqued with the new Xen / Win XP guest OS functionality that should be available soon, or maybe already is. Does anyone know a url / wiki / blog that has uptodate info? What I know: To get Xen to work with a vanilla Win XP as guest OS you need support in your host OS, Xen, your CPU, and your motherboard/bios. Xen 3.0 is supposed to have the basics for the support, but I'm not positive it has actually been tested with all of the above. See http://www.planetx64.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemi… Intel has released at least one CPU that supports the VT. ie. the new features required to support the above. See http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumXE/index.htm My concern is this footnote: Φ Intel(r) Virtualization Technology and Intel(r) Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel(r) EM64T) require a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, enabling software and/or operating system, device drivers and applications designed for these features. Performance will vary depending on your configuration. Contact your vendor for more information. So, as expected, a MB (or computer) with VT support is also required. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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openSUSE Users April 2006