April 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

2006/04/04 status meeting - where's the transcript?
by Christian Boltz 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello, I'm still waiting for the transcript of the 2006-04-04 status meeting. (I'd like to read it because I had to leave early.) When will it be put to the wiki? Regards, Christian Boltz -- "Microsoft spel chekar worgs grate!"

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Odd message pops up everytime I click on home directory and other icons
by Gil Weber 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I was trying to get mpgs to play using Kaffeine 0.8.1-0 on my laptop (SuSE 10.0). Never successful, but I must have clicked on something without realizing it, for now every time I click on my home directory icon a warning box pops us (actually up to 5 instances of the same box) that says: Sorry Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. If I then click on that warning box it goes away and the home directory opens. Similarly, if I click on the icon for the KDE Control Center I get a pop-up box that says: Sorry - Control Center Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. When I click OK on that box it goes away and the KDE Control Center opens. K3B, Kontact, KMail, and Kaffeine all do the same thing. Other programs such as gFTP and KsCD do not give me the pop-up warning box. Can anyone help me eliminate this very annoying problem? After that we'll try to figure out why the heck Kaffeine can't be associated with .mpg or .mpeg video clips in the file association section of KDE Components in the Control Center. Thanks! Gil

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Powersave, cont
by Marek Chlopek 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi, [I can't continue the thread so I had to start it over, Sorry!] I solved powersave problems on my Toshiba by installing the latest Mr Mantel kernel: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/kotd/i386/HEAD Mine was: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/kotd/i386/HEAD/kernel-smp.i586.rpm Later I decided to download and compile sources and install madwifi driver for my wifi card. Now acpi works perfect, quiet and reports both processors (HPET). 9.3 kernels - I had to disable HPET in bios to work with this kernel 10.0 OSS kernels - hangs when acpi is on Mantel kernel - works great. Regards, -- Marek Chlopek

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icons on only one desktop
by Daniel Bauer 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello everybody All the icons I put on my desktop are always on all 4 virtual desktops that I have. But I'd like to have some of the icons on one of the desktops. How can I do this? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com

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official Novell translation team
by jdd 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello :-) is there a mean to have contacts to the official Novell translation team? my purpose is to make the french translation of openSUSE compliant with the vocabulary used in the manuals I have a page here: http://fr.opensuse.org/Glossaire_d'équivalences_entre_l'anglais_et_le_français with some officials (government) french translation terms, I would like to have a similar thing from Novell. I beleive there are several translators and I could use some of they references or tools thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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printing .svg drawings
by aram v nathan 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I tried my hand on a drawing using inkscape. I saved it as a .svg file. When i printed out through my HP Lj6L, i was surprised to find that text boxes/objects are not printed out while all lines/curves were in place. Can anybody tell me what is happening ?

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Suse-10.0 and Display issues
by Digvijoy Chatterjee 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi List , I work in an environment where 5 of us have installed SUSE-10.0 ,All of us have an intel i845 chipset , and one of these three LCD monitors, Dell E151Fpb , Acer AL-1512 ,HP -1502 At install time yast2 is able to probe the graphics card and the monitor properly and run the display at 1024x768 and 16.7 million colours.However when we play games like torcs/bz-flags which make use of 3D Accln /direct rendering etc...and quit , the display on the screen starts scrolling infinitely and resizes itself based on mouse movement ,even switching to init 3 and coming back to 5 does not help.The only option is reboot, where i think the bios resets something and it starts working again. besides sometimes when we check a box in yast2->h/w->desktop and monitor to activate 3-D and click test the display blanks ,and so do Ctrl+Alt+F1-7 VTs Also once in a while , the display goes off ,even the CTrl+Alt-F[1-6] screens go off..with the following output on the LCD :"Input not support." Again when such blanking happens , the only option left is to reboot.running sax2 after any of the above scenarios results in a suboptimal display like (800x600 & 65536 colours) ,it gives the option to change the configuration ,and on selecting 1024x768 ,16.7M ,the console blanks. What we do now , is forcibly restore xorg.conf like mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.saxsave /etc/X11/xorg.conf and say startx or init 5 but the whole cycle repeats again and again...when we play games or when we try to reconfigure X like adding a mouse ,or trying a new monitor etc.....we are so frustrated that we are planning to go back to Suse-9.2 which never had such issues. Any Pointers Digz

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Re: [SLE] The future of SuSE Linux as we know it?
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Allen <slackwarewolf(a)comcast.net> > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:32 pm, lerninlinux(a)comcast.net wrote: > > taking a couple of older ones, and trying things like Gentoo on them, so I > > learn more about how things work. As I am not sure what I know, and what > > distro's like Suse, help make easy for me. > > Why Gentoo? It's not even hard to install, if you want something that REALLY > makes you work try Detuxx, Linux from Hell. A gentoo fan boy I know decided > to try it and gave up. > Simply to make me learn more of the command line, and text functions. Not to give myself a headache. I also want to expand out the other way, and run x remotely (not vnc). Just to learn.

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Announce - Enhanced Linux System Accounting
by Guillaume Thouvenin 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello, I tried to improve the BSD Linux accounting by adding the management of groups of processes in order to provide accounting for a group of processes instead of one process. ELSA is completely GPL and I'm looking for beta-tester. Feel free to download and use it. Every comment is welcome. If this tool is interesting, maybe it can be included in the SUSE distribution ;). The url where you can download it is: http://elsa.sf.net/ Here is a more complete description: Enhanced Linux System Accounting aims to extend the monitoring of resources done in Linux to a group of processes. To achieve this, we provide a user space solution to manage group of processes and we use an existing per-process BSD-like accounting. The management of group of processes is based on the process events connector that sends events such fork, exec, id change and exit to userspace. A user space daemon, provided by ELSA, listens to the fork events to manage a group of processes. It communicates to the high level application through sockets for local inter-process communication. Therefore, the high level application can send request to add or remove a process from a job (ie a group of processes), it can also send a request to get information about current jobs. Thus, the daemon is under the high level application control. It has another task to accomplish. When it receives the message from the process events connector, it will check if the process that has initiated the fork belongs to a job and if the answer is yes, the daemon will add the child into the same job. That's the main property of "containers". Per-process accounting information is not a part of ELSA but it is used by it. Such information is provided by an extra mechanism called BSD accounting. ELSA provides two other user space applications. The job manager called 'jobmng' is the interface that manages groups of processes. There is also a webmin module to visualize data. The webmin module called 'Enhanced Linux System Accounting' will use information provided by the user space job daemon and the information provided by a per-process accounting mechanism to provide a per-group accounting information. Enjoy, Best regards, Guillaume

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new SUSE 10 install - Linux RAID - kernel panic - only starts in failsafe
by Steve Jacobs 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I've just set up an OpenSUSE 10 system. At boot, the system experiences a Kernel Panic and halts prior to completely booting up. The last few lines displayed before things hang are: md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3. Waiting for device /dev/md0 to appear: ok No record for 'md0' in database Attempting manual resume Kernel panic - not syncing: I/O error reading memory image. (Starting in failsafe mode appears to work perfectly well - what is differnet about failsafe? What do I lose in failsafe mode?) I've got a matched pair of Seagate SATA 160G drives, connected to an Adaptec 'SATACONNECT' PCI SATA controller card (model 1205SA). During the install, I chose to mirror the drives using the 'built-in' software RAID. I've never done software RAID before, and may have caused the problem here. I initially thought I'd mirror the two drives, and then format & partition the volume. When I tried to create the RAID volume, though, the install program complained that there were no available partitions to add to the RAID volume. So I backed up a step, and using the partitioning tool in the install program, I created identical 1Gig partitions on each drive for swap, identical 20G partitions for '/', and identical partitions to the end of the drive for '/home'. Using the RAID button I created a RAID1 volume of each 'partition-pair', formatting the 1G as swap, and the other 2 partitions as Reiserfs. I believe/suspect that md0 is the swap partition. What did I do incorrectly, and how may I repair this? While it would be a huge time sink if I have to reformat and start over, there's no data on the system yet, so it wouldn't be any problem, and I'd rather do it now than later, if it will need to be done at all. Thanks, Steve

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