August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Archive SPAM elimination?
by Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Judging from posts on the list it would seem that the SPAM and non relevant email that has crept into the archives needs to be removed. I am willing to assist in doing this and I wonder if there is a sinple way to complete this task? Whom would I need to contact at Novell? I am due to speak to an employment agency hired by Novell(South Africa) on Tuesday morning about this and I hope that there is a possibility that Novell can hire my unemployed self and put it to work. Can anyone help with a pointer or three either in completing the task or getting into Novell? Email me privately if you wish although I am subscribed to the sle list. Regards Hylton -- ======================================================================== Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org ========================================================================

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nvidia questions
by lostson 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hello I am using suse 10.1 fully updated and I have a nvidia 5700 card. I am using the nvidia drivers version 1.0.8762. I also have a dual monitor setup with twinview with a res on each monitor of 1280x1024. On most of the distros I have used i can push at least a 70hz refresh but with suse I have not been able to get the rates that high. Am I missing something in my conifg maybe ? Also when playing a game such as ut99, Enemy Territory, or ut2004, My res is at 1280x1024 and with the game settings at 1024x768 and fullscreen mode the games do not go fullscreen. I have never had this problem before either. Is anyone else experiencing these problems and have you been able to fix them, thanks. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===========~-._ (___________________) \_______/ I Want To Believe

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'Virtual' machines
by Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

I have two machines connected into a 10/100MB switch. Would it currently be possible to run a Windows application on its own box from SuSE Linux using WINE? -- ======================================================================== Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org ========================================================================

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Size of /var for 10.0
by Claes＠work 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi, can somebody post the result of du -h /var from a pretty vanilla 10.0 installation? The reason I am asking is I want to determine if it would be feasible to mount /var on a usb flash (512MB) for a silent server where I would like to suspend the hd. On 10.1, /var is more than 512MB, and quite a lot of the space is used by zmd . Thanks, Claes

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KDE updated, no window title bar and borders
by Sorin Peste 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

I recently updated KDE to version 3.5.4 using zen-updater and now my windows show no title bar - including minimize, maximize, close buttons - no borders and I cannot type anything into any of them. I was using Xgl and compiz but the problem persists after I disable both of them. The KDE repo I am using is located at this mirror: ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3A/KDE3/SUSE… I've had no problems in the past with this mirror. Here are the versions for some of the installed RPM packages: kdebase3-3.5.4-19.1 kdebase3-session-3.5.4-19.1 kdebase3-kdm-3.5.4-19.1 kdebase3-nsplugin-3.5.4-19.1 kdebase3-SuSE-10.1-58.7 kdebase3-samba-3.5.4-19.1 kdemultimedia3-CD-3.5.4-9.3 kdegraphics3-fax-3.5.4-10.3 kdeaddons3-konqueror-3.5.4-14.3 kdelibs3-3.5.4-24.2 kdegraphics3-scan-3.5.4-10.3 kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.4-10.3 kdeartwork3-kscreensaver-3.5.4-9.3 kdeutils3-3.5.4-9.3 kdepim3-3.5.4-10.4 kdebluetooth-0.0.svn20060413-17.1 kdebase3-ksysguardd-3.5.4-19.1 kdeutils3-laptop-3.5.4-9.3 kdegames3-3.5.4-5.3 kdenetwork3-vnc-3.5.4-13.2 kdenetwork3-3.5.4-13.2 kdegraphics3-pdf-3.5.4-10.3 kde3-i18n-ro-3.5.4-69.3 kdebindings3-python-3.5.4-2.10 kdeaddons3-kate-3.5.4-14.3 kdeaddons3-kicker-3.5.4-14.3 kdepim3-networkstatus-3.5.4-10.4 kdegraphics3-3.5.4-10.3 kdelibs3-doc-3.5.4-3 kdenetwork3-news-3.5.4-13.2 kdegraphics3-kamera-3.5.4-10.3 kdemultimedia3-3.5.4-9.3 kdeartwork3-xscreensaver-3.5.4-9.3 kdeartwork3-sound-3.5.4-9.3 kdemultimedia3-mixer-3.5.4-9.3 kdepim3-sync-3.5.4-10.4 kdesdk3-3.5.4-8.4 kdepim3-kpilot-3.5.4-10.4 qt3-3.3.6-158.1 gtk-qt-engine-0.7cvs20060209-22.1 qt-4.1.0-29 yast2-qt-2.13.60-0.4 The update 'was successful', acording to zmd, although it did take a rather long time (maybe 40 mins for 20-something KDE packages, from a 500KB/sec. mirror) Can someone point me in the right direction with this issue? Thank you.

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Palm LifeDrive
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi, Somebody knows if Palm LifeDrive is compatible, in sense to communicate, with Linux? Thank you -- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante

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slow usb speeds
by M Harris 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Greetings, I was reviewing bugzilla.novell.com bug# 105871 'slow usb speeds' and now have a couple of questions for the group. I too have noticed the painfully slow usb speeds on SuSE 10.0, due to something wrong with automount... the bug report says that sync is implemented wrong. The solution given to disable sync seems like a complicated hack, and I am wondering if Novell has come up with a better solution for this problem yet... patch? Is the problem fixed in 10.1? What are the subsequent consequences of disabling sync permanently? What is the recommended SuSE way of disabling the automount? Thanks! -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Net install of SUSE 10.1 on Toshiba Satellite M-30
by Venkatesh Murugesan 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi everyone, I downloaded the iso image for the net install, and burnt to cd. I tried to boot from the cd on my laptop, but all i saw was a cursor, and then it proceeded to the windows xp welcome screen. I have verified the checksums. They seem to be ok. Anyways, I am now resorting to downloading all 5 cds but if anyone has any ideas or suggestions as to why the net install didn't seem to work, please do let me know. Cheers! ^___^ Venkatesh.

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Re: [SLE] Compiling Kalva
by Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Philipp Thomas skrev: > * Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no (kenneth(a)grafikern.no) [20060810 20:16]: > > >> I couldn't find any package in yast or smart that's called libz or >> libz-devel. >> > > The packages are named zlib and zlib-devel and latter is what you need. > > >> But I did a google and found some RPMs I could install. That >> seemed to do the trick. >> > > That's not a good idea as it doesn't ensure that the devel package matches > the runtime library. > > Philipp > > Hi Thanks, valid point. So I uninstalled it and used the one you suggested. Although now I have a different problem. I can get Kalva to do everything right except two things.: First: It plays back sound while recording (now this isn't a showstopper) Second: It doesn't record the sound so all I get are silent movies... I found this post on the http://developer.berlios.de forum where the Kalva downloads are hosted.: -------- [ Bug #7930 ] aumix options not correctly Date: 2006-Jun-19 09:21 Submitted By: ralphmw Summary: aumix options not correctly Original Submission: no matter what i enter in the audio hardware tab, kalva always uses /usr/bin/aumix -l 0 -l R -i 75 to open sound. instead it should be something like /usr/bin/aumix -l 0 -i R -i 75 in my config. Kalva: 0.8.79 KDE: 3.5.3 Linux: SuSE Linux 10.1 2.6.16.13-4-smp x86_64 GNU/Linux Best regards, Ralph. -------- However, manually applying this fix doesn't help with my sound problem. Except now the sound doesn't playback during recording. -- Regards Kenneth Aar

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LVM issue
by Greg Freemyer 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

All, I had an air conditioner go out yesterday and a suse 10.1 based fileserver got shutdown non-gracefully. Today, one of my LVM virtual partitions is not working (Yes, I have a backup from the previous night, but I hope not to need it.) A quick look at "/dev/<my-lvm-domain>/* shows that one of the links to /dev/mapper/* that should be there is missing. ie. 2 are present and the corresponding filesystems are mounting fine. The 3rd is missing and it obviously will not mount. The missing link is /dev/<my-lvm-domain>/data I would simply recreate it, but looking at /dev/mapper I'm surprised to find 2 entries that could be my lvm partition: /dev/mapper/<my-lvm-domain>-data /dev/mapper/<my-lvm-domain>-data-real Is it safe for me to simply try creating a link for -data then issueing a mount command? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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