June 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] New Install - Question on Update
by PerfectReign 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:28:33AM -0500, PerfectReign wrote: > > I am typing this from my newly installed 10.1 system on my new Gateway > > m255 Lapop. Once I got WinXP Tablet out of the way, the install was > > flawless. The NIC and WiFi cards were correctly identified, and I'm > > running 1280x768 with 3d on the widescreen display. The only thing I > > haven't configured yet is the touchscreen. > > > > I went ahead and installed KDE then added the repositories for all the > > stuff I want. > > > > Now, I get an error. In doing my first update, I get an error with the > > libzypp patch. (Isn't this to fix the updater problems?) > > > > What should I do? I'll hold off until I hear, since this is a > > non-critical laptop right now. (I still have my Dell 600m running 10.0 > > in the meantime.) > > > > Here's the error: > > Please read: > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/ 0004.html > > (and then run "YAST Online Update" once.) Thank you, that worked. Funny - I had read that doing the YOU during install avoided this issue. I had done an update during install. Ahh, well...on to figuring out the touchscreen. Thank you for all your hard work. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.filesite.org The internet: http://welcome.twysted.net/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] KDE 3.5.3 - SuSE 9.3 fonts
by Phil Burness 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Upgraded to KDE 3.5.3 and the fonts are terrible - (default fonts in Konsole, and other KDE applications) anybody know what's wrong or how to correct? Phil -- Phil Burness -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Voice Answering Machine and Fax Programs
by Ralph Ellis 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I currently use a fax program, Fax2Send, to handle my computer's faxes but I would like to get a program that supports both voice mail and faxing. There are a dozen or so programs out there that handle this in some way including some that are just manual tinkering with Hylafax and Vgetty. I have read the setup materials for going the manual route but I would prefer having a more user friendly program to do this. Can anyone recommend a Linux voice mail/fax program that has worked well for them. I don't mind buying one commercially as well. Sometimes it is worth the money to cut down on the hassle factor of a manual setup. Thanks in advance Ralph Ellis

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Re: [SLE] can I convert a dvd to mpeg, avi. . . OFF LIST
by Rui Santos 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

steve wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 17:49, you wrote: > >> steve wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 22:53, Rui Santos wrote: >>> >>>> steve wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Steve, >>>> >>>> >>>>> Is there anyway I can convert DVD's (movies) into something I can edit? >>>>> Or is there a way of editing them as is? >>>>> >> Try http://www.doom9.org/ . >> Also try avidemux2 home page. http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Both of them have nice tutorials. >> >> >>> TIA >>> Steve. >>> >> Rui >> > > Hi Rui > > I went through the tutorial. Everything worked as per the instructions but on > trying to play back the saved .avi file I get: > > AVI: Missing video strem!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :( > > Any ideas? > > OTOH if I simply copy the file called: > > vts_01_1.vob > > from the mini DVD it loads and plays fine. I cannot however edit it. > > Any ideas? > Cheers, Steve. > > (maybe I should copy this to the list too?) > I can give you an example on how to convert an mpeg to avi using xvid codec. 1. Open avidemux2 2. Click open and select .vob file ( you can add more if you want to ). 3. On Video, select xvid4. I will not go through the configure and filter options. 4. On Audio, you can select a number of audio codecs. If you are going for quality try the FFm AC3 codec. If you are going for size try the Lame codec. 5. On Format Select avi 6. Click save as and type the file name. Let me know if all worked... > > -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Re: Gnome and SuSE 10 too unreliable to use?
by Jonathan Brooks 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Funny you should mention this today. I ended up switching to KDE because of this, and today (for the first time in ages) I used a gnome application (bittorrent) from within KDE, within 5 minutes one of the cores on my CPU was maxed out at 100% usage! When I originally logged this on bugzilla I was completely underwhelmed by the response. I think the problem lies with which file modification manager gnome uses: "fam" or "gam". Not certain, but I think the way they (eventually) suggested fixing it was to delete gam and install fam. I guess this should be fixed in SuSE 10.1, but I haven't been "brave" enough to try it yet...... Cheers, Jon Collinson, Adrian wrote: > Jonathan, > > Sorry for the unsolicited email but after seeing you posting re "Gnome > and SuSE 10 too unreliable" on the Internet I wondered if you managed to > find a resolution to your problem?Experiencing exactly the same here. > > regards > > Adrian > > > * Adrian Collinson > Head of IT* > > MF1 Racing > Dadford Road, Silverstone > Northamptonshire, NN12 8TJ > United Kingdom > * > ** adrian.collinson(a)mf1racing.com > <mailto:adrian.collinson@mf1racing.com>* * > www.midlandf1.com <http://www.midlandf1.com/>* > > Direct +44 (0) 1327 850872 > Fax +44 (0) 1327 857694 > Mobile +44 (0) 7908 201300 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Midland F1 Racing Ltd.* > Tel: +44 (0)1327 850800 > Fax: +44 (0)1327 850866 > > > This message may contain information which is sensitive, confidential > and protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of > this message or any part of it, please delete it immediately and > telephone Midland F1 Racing Ltd. You should not disclose the contents to > any other person or take copies. > > Any views expressed by an individual employee are not necessarily > representative of the views, policies or attitudes of Midland F1 > Racing Ltd. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Fellow PaIN Group, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics Le Gros Clark Place, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865-282654 fax: 01865-282656 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] New Install - Question on Update
by PerfectReign 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I am typing this from my newly installed 10.1 system on my new Gateway m255 Lapop. Once I got WinXP Tablet out of the way, the install was flawless. The NIC and WiFi cards were correctly identified, and I'm running 1280x768 with 3d on the widescreen display. The only thing I haven't configured yet is the touchscreen. I went ahead and installed KDE then added the repositories for all the stuff I want. Now, I get an error. In doing my first update, I get an error with the libzypp patch. (Isn't this to fix the updater problems?) What should I do? I'll hold off until I hear, since this is a non-critical laptop right now. (I still have my Dell 600m running 10.0 in the meantime.) Here's the error: Establishing script:libzypp-patch-zmdrestart.sh-2-1533-1.noarch[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates] This would invalidate script:libzypp-patch-zmdrestart.sh-2-1533-1.noarch[SUSE-Linux-10.1-Updates]. Marking this resolution attempt as invalid. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.filesite.org The internet: http://welcome.twysted.net/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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SuSE 10 installation onto a dodgy hard disk
by Jonathan Brooks 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi, I need to install SuSE 10.1 onto a machine that has some "issues" :-) It has a single Windows NTFS partition (/dev/sda2, which I want to keep) and a load of free space I've made available for my Linux installation. The problem I keep encountering is that because there are some duff sectors on the Windows partition the SuSE installation keeps hanging. Pressing ALT+F4 reveals a terminal in which there is a list rolling over and over telling me that there are duff sectors on /dev/sda2 I.e. it's checking the whole of the disk..... How can I tell the SuSE installation to ignore /dev/sda2 when it comes to doing the installation? Obviously my long term goal is to retire this disk and replace it with something less crap, but in the meantime I need to get Linux up and running on this machine ASAP. Hope someone's got an idea on this, my searching has drawn a blank. Cheers, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865 272156 fax: 01865 282675

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[opensuse] openSUSE Status Meeting 2006/06/27 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
by Sonja Krause-Harder 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi there, the next openSUSE status meeting will take place at the official #opensuse IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/openSUSE) next Tuesday at 2006/06/27 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT) This meeting is meant to discuss the latest developments in and around openSUSE. Please add your topics to the meeting wiki page at: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-06-27 as soon as possible. Also, if you cannot attend the meeting, but have questions you want to see discussed, please add them to the meeting wiki page as well. For general info about our IRC meetings read: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/About For a general technical introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/ (not affiliated with openSUSE) or enter "IRC help" into your preferred search engine. The network we use is freenode - for more information on this, including how to find a server, visit http://freenode.net/ (not affiliated with openSUSE either). cheers, Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh(a)suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What software package manager can create a sandbox installation area?
by Gomez, Daniel 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello, Running Suse, I wish to allow users the ability to use some package manager to install software in a sandbox area while protecting the underlying core software. Something similar to Darwinports and Fink for Mac OS X and Blastwave for Solaris. Does Suse (or really in Linux distro for that matter) have some equivalent means? I am aware of using "rpm --root --dbpath" but that too assumes the RPMS themselves are relocatable. I don't have personal experience with Gentoo's portage but I have read the forum post of a port of Portage over to suse 9.0 years ago (http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=796&hl=portage ) but that seemed to be a one-off project that never lifted of the ground. Portage is interesting because you compile everything on the fly and that gives you the flexibility to presumably --prefix your software elsewhere either on Portage setup or during emerging (though it seemed the configuration of the prototype was overlaying the base distro's software which is not appealing.) Again, I wish to offer my linux user base a workstation whereby they can't alter the underlying base software so that we don't get requests to re-image their workstation after they have broken it due to a bad install, while on the other hand give them a means to automate software installations into some sandbox like some opensource Darwin and Solaris projects are giving their users. Surely there are Linux alternatives here. Right? The only other idea I can concieve is sudo'izing current tools like smart with preconfigured channels AND to wrap smart itself so that it checks a blacklist of software that under any circumstances can not be updated. The goal here is to again allow software installations not included in our base 'image' to be installed by users themselves, but still gives system administators some control over what those packages are so as to reduce the likelihood of the helpdesk ticket stating they fried their workstation because they updated the kernel or some other basic package to their demise. You may say to me, "Just create your own repository base of pre-approved packages and allow your users to pull from that." It's the 'pre-approval' process as well as the mirroring and basic upkeep of a local respository that I wish to avoid. The blacklisting will cause some upkeep, but I forsee that being easier to create, maintain and manage than a whitelist which a local repository implies (though pre-approved channels is a form of whitelisting which is fine). Any other ideas? Any tools already created or in the works? Or should I just attempt to create a blacklist software "registery" - sorry for the M$ profanity there ;-) Thanks, -Daniel

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Sound card issue
by Dave Waddling 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I have just installed 10.1 and must admit the upgrade was not nearly as seamless as when going from 9.3 to 10.0 which I thought would be a rougher road. Anyway I have been using my laptop with a nForce3 sound card which has always worked great with the snd_intel8x0 driver. Until now that is, Yast tells me the card is not configured however It doesn't allow me to configure it just errors saying that the module snd-intel8x0 could not be loaded. I have tried a few things however nothing seems to get it. Can anyone offer up a suggestion? Please and thanks in advance -- Dave Waddling dave(a)waddling.com

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