September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

repository for gnome 2.16
by Rylan Cottrell 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Does anyone know of a repository containing the rpms of gnome 2.16 for opensuse 10.1? Cheers Rylan

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can someone do me a favor? If you can install omni printer driver, please send me the ppd files
by 张韡武 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hello. So much thanks for all the people helped me on this list all the time. Sorry to ask for help time after time without being able to help others (not yet SuSE guru). I tried a lot of times to install omni driver, it looks like I am not able to create ppd files which is in turn used by cups to install the printer. If anyone has ever successfully created these ppd files, please send me by email or download link. According to what most document seems to suggest, simply install ghostscript-omni package (available from online install source) from yast should generate these PPD files. I have broken all yast on all the desktop computers here (by switching installation source) and I need it pretty eagerly (I installed ghostscript-omni by 'rpm -i' which seem to drop the PPD file generation procedure). I am not sure simply having these ppd files would help me get these printers working, but I certainly know without them I cannot go on. I am trying to make my first customer switch from Windows to Linux. I already successfully convinced them to use Linux but this customer have many Epson LQ-300 printer (which seems only supported by omni ghostscript) that is used to print invoices for daily business, they cannot switch to another printer simply because OS changed (in case printers doesn't work, they prefer to switch back to Windows). I worked so hard for them and it's so close to getting them converted. This is my first trial to run Linux service business (for sure I'd like to borrow more experience from you who also provide linux desktop solution and service).

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Bug in ATI Radeon 9000M (Dell 600m) Video Card Detection
by ken 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Running lspci -v (Suse 9.3) on this Dell Inspiron 600m with an ATI Radeon 9000M yeilds: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 011e Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 11 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 This, of course, is an error; the R250 Lf is a completely different video card. This caused severe problems during the initial system install, a problem which occasionally recurs when running SuSEconfig/Sax, when it decides, for some reason, to turn my screen into complete garbage by rewriting /etc/X11/xorg.conf. By "garbage" I mean that the screen displays four identical quandrants, each of which has some recognizable graphics, but other than those looks like some image which has been run through a shredder and its pieces randomly pasted back together. I'm guessing that the horizontal and vertical sync rates and the guard zones are all way off due to the misidentification of the video card. Since getting the above output from lspci, I hand-edited /usr/share/pci.ids to make the following changes. # 4c66 Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] 4c66 Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] While lspci reflects this change, I doubt that this will effect anything more than a cosmetic change and haven't rerun sax to see if it still messes up the display or not. Though I reported this problem more than a year ago (an email address specified in the lspci manpage), it hasn't yet been fixed, so I thought it was time to write and send out another report. Maybe it'll be fixed by v.10.3. If someone knows a better person or office to send this to, please pass it on or let me know so that I can. Thanks much.

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Bugzilla soooooo slow
by Azerion 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hello, Am I the only onw having troubles with the speed of Bugzilla.Novell.com? It takes ages before I get a screen and to submit bugreports. Azerion

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Re: [opensuse] Fw: Driver Repository for openSUSE / SuSE Linux Enterprise (nVidia)
by B.Weber＠warwick.ac.uk 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

> I see, and that's why Novell does not allow to host the interface module on their server (which in fact would be the only thing that has to be compiled for eatch and every kernel). Actually I think the interface module is GPLed, it's the driver that isn't. SUSE used to distribute the shim with their kernel which was how YOU could install it without having to recompile anything (take a look at the script YOU used to install it). AFAIK nvidia's driver doesn't violate the GPL because they use a GPLed shim, this doesn't mean it's morally right though. benji --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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SuSE kernel Patches
by Saied Taghavi 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

hi every body i'm developing another distro and i found that hardware support of SuSE is great so i want to know which kernel patches applied to SuSE kernel . please give me the complete list if possible. thanks --------------------------------- Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal

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OOoCon Lyon
by jimmy Pierre 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hello, Live : http://ooocon-koon.kiberpipa.org/ Have a lot of fun! Jimmy Pierre www.nui.fr

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Repository for kernel 2.6.17?
by Rick Friedman 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Does anyone know of a repository (to add to Smart) which contains the latest stable kernel, 2.6.17? Currently, I am running kernel 2.6.16.21-0.13-default. Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. PGP Key Id: 9E1125E0

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Re: [opensuse] Repeated: Copy speed (USB / openSUSE 10.1)
by Dominique Leuenberger 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

>>> Reply on 12-09-2006 10:43:33 <<<> On Monday 11 September 2006 15:18, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > > ok, I admit, the mainboard (Asus P5LD2 Deluxe) I have already gave > > me some surprises when installing Linux (I wanted to activate RAID0 > > over two discs, as the board should support RAID, but the installer > > detected a software raid). > > As far as I can see from the specs of this board, it has an Intel ICH7R > > controller, which should be hardware RAID. This means the RAID is set up > in > the BIOS, not in the system. So configure your RAID0 in the BIOS, then > the OS > will see a single drive Unfortunately, exactly THIS setup is NOT working. When configuring a RAID on the mainboard (as it should be in my eyes too), Linux denies installing, stating that it detected a Software raid. Kernels up to 2.4 would have had possibilities to deal with this (that's somewhat the message I saw while trying to install suse Linux 10.1 while hardware raid was activated) But that was only a side note on the post. Dominique TMF is a global management and accounting outsourcing firm with 65 offices in 51 countries and over 1,600 professionals (July 2006). TMF is expanding rapidly throughout the world. Learn more about our unique network and our services and visit our website at www.tmf-group.com. The information contained in this e-mail communication is confidential and solely intended for the person to whom it is addressed. If someone other than the intended recipient should receive or come into possession of this e-mail communication, he/she will not be entitled to read, disseminate, disclose or duplicate it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are requested to notify the sender and to destroy the original e-mail communication. TMF is neither liable for the correct and complete transmission of the information contained in this e-mail communication nor for any delay in its receipt. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been checked for the presence of computer viruses.

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[opensuse] Repeated: Copy speed (USB / openSUSE 10.1)
by Dominique Leuenberger 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

> yesterday evening I copied some files from my USB 2.0 MP3 Player > (Arcjos > AV380) to the desktop. > > Unfortunately, I was quiet surprised by the speed I got of this action. > > > a hdparm -t /dev/sdc showed it would copy at 1MB / sec (which is about > USB 1.1), while I'm quiet sure I was using the USB 2.0 ports of the > computer (tried different ports, and the board only HAS 2.0 ports. > > Is there anything I missed in tweaking / loading USB 2.0 support? > ok, I admit, the mainboard (Asus P5LD2 Deluxe) I have already gave me > some surprises when installing Linux (I wanted to activate RAID0 over > two discs, as the board should support RAID, but the installer detected > a software raid). > > Thanks for some advises, > Dominique

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