January 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?
by James Knott 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Jerry Houston wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> Again, teach them the skill. It doesn't take a genius to find out how >> to do something in a new app, that they've already been doing. On the >> other hand, teaching people that the Microsoft way is the only way is >> doing them a great disservice. >> > > Please, review the history of this thread and find where I've ever > suggested that. > > A couple of messages back, IIRC, you said people should learn Microsoft software to join the work force. I countered with they should learn how to use applications. While many people use Microsoft Office, there are also many who use Word Perfect or OpenOffice/StarOffice. With the way Vista and Office 2007 are going, knowing only Microsoft Office might be a limiting factor. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Screen brightness
by Jesse Shaver 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61, and have it set to turn the screen brightness set to get lower when it is on battories. This works fine, until the screen turns off (after 5 minutes of inactivity). When it I wake it back up, the screen brightness is reset to full. I can go into KPowersave and turn the brightness down, and that works, but as soon as the screen turns off, and comes back on, it is bright again. Related to this (maybe), there are hot keys (via a function button) to controll the screen brightness. When I use these buttons, a display pops up in the center of the screen to tell me what the brightness is, and I can raise and lower what it says the brightness is, but the screen brightness does not change. hope someone can help, thanks, -Jesse

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[opensuse] NFS drops over Wireless
by Bruce Samhaber 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi, My NFS mounted directories seem to drop, while connected to the network over wireless ethernet lan, a few minutes after switching to wireless. Is there a command that will refresh NFS mounts? I believe that the reason the NFS mounts are diconnecting is because the wireless network is disconnecting. The only thing that I was thinking of doing was running a script that would unount all the nfs directories then re-mount them 'mount -a' to do all the fstab listed nfs entries. Then run the script either in a cron job or from Kinternet as it reconnnects to the network. The later is better because it would only happen when the network re-connects which is the correct time; but this script would need to run as 'root' user when Kinternet is running as a user. Thanks, -- Bruce Samhaber Senior Hardware Design Consultant Tel: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Fax: 613-724-5987 Ottawa, Ontario Cel: 613-297-6961 K1Y 3L1 mailto: bsamhaber(a)sympatico.ca http://www3.sympatico.ca/marypat/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Odd video related issues
by Clayton 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I am trying to figure out if the video issues I am having are related to some odd thing about my new install of 10.3 or if my video card is dying. Some of the symptoms of the problem are: - MythTV running on an LCD TV as a second desktop can no longer autoscale the MythTV UI (after updating to 10.3), and will only run at the resolution of the TFT monitor (instead of the resolution of the LCD). I have been able to get it working at the right resolution for the LCD by setting the UI scale manually in the MythTV options. I am using the exact same version of MythTV with the same database and configuration as I did under 10.2 where it worked perfectly (I backed up all the data and settings before updating to 10.3). - MPlayer cannot fullscreen properly on the LCD TV using the default configuration. If I force MPlayer to use the x11 video mode instead of the default xv, I can get full screen to work on the LCD, but not on the TFT. - When I play a video on the TFT (instead of the LCD, and using the x11 video setting) sometimes after starting the video, the screen flashes and then "dims" The video may or may not be viewable at this point. The dimming of the entire screen is similar to what you see on some websites lately where they fade the page to a dark grey and the video or whatever is shown in a box "floating" on top of the webpage. If the screen is dimmed in this manner, the only way I have found to reset it back to normal is to log out (restarting X) and log back in again. - Full screen OpenGL games - for example World of Warcraft running in Cedega - will work OK for a while, but then the textures in the game start to "fall off" (I don't know how else to explain this one). I have not tested long term on Linux native games... only a couple of games in Cedega that were working previously. I am using one driver version newer of the video driver, and the exact same xorg.conf file as I was using in 10.2. Do these things sound like nVidia driver and X config issues or a video card in the first stages of dying? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Evolution IMAP oddities
by Martin Mielke 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi all, I mostly use Thunderbird to access our IMAP servers but sometimes I try with Evolution just for fun... Although it has been configured to copy the sent email under the same "Sent" folder as Thunderbird it's quite strange not to find all the sent items inside... oddly enough under Properties it shows 1000+ sent emails, which is correct... but they only appear with Thunderbird... Any clues? TIA, Martin ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] installed f2c cannot be found by an installation procedure
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Last Friday my computer monitor was messed up. I had to reinstall everything from the o.s. and all applications on top of it. I have downloaded R source from the official sitehttp://cran.at.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/ I have uncompressed the archive and ran the configure as root in /usr/local/bin. The configuration procedure dies writing: configure: error: Neither an F77 compiler nor f2c found but actually f2c is installed: linux-Ciccia:/usr/local/bin/R-2.6.1 # which f2c /usr/bin/f2c I am running Linux/SuSE 10.3 Does anyone know how to get around this problem ? Thank you so much. Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] modems/providers and kinternet
by Istvan Gabor 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello list users: I want to configure a modem on my openSUSE 10.3 system. This is a serial line external modem. I have no problem with adding the modem and configuring providers with YaST but I have the following issue: Whenever I add or remove a modem and/or provider it won't be reflected in kinternet until I restart the computer. Eg. I had 3 modem devices configured and I removed two of them, kinternet still shows all 3. I ran SuSEconfig, restarted network but they did not make any change. How could I have kinternet show/notice the current status of configured modems and providers without rebooting? TIA, IG HÁZTARTÁSI GÉPET szeretnél? RENDELJ MOST! AEG-ELECTROLUX gépek AKCIÓS áron ORSZÁGOS kiszállítással az ELECTROLUXshop.hu-tól http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,239723,284071/click.prm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Help with testing of new Java update
by Michal Vyskocil 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi all, as you probably know, there were many problems with java updates in the past. It was an unlucky combination of my fault in spec and a bug in update-alternatives, which breaks the /etc/alternatives symlinks. Because Sun released the new update of Java, I'd like to do some tests. The detailed instructions how to install an update are on wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvyskocil You are welcome to help me with testing. BTW: please, do not send me about a problems with some missing things in 64bit installation. The Sun doesn't released the java plugin, or a ControlPanel in 64bit version, thus there're missing in OpenSUSE. You should visit the http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_use_Java_with_Firefox_on_64-bit_openSuSE_10.3 Thanks for your help Michal Vyskocil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KitchenSync
by Chris Arnold 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I use 10.3 with kde 3.5.7 and have a Moto Q that i want to sync contact etc. I have kitchensync installed along with the plugin-moto. It does not look like i am able to sync as nothing happens when i hit "sync". I first started the app and made a group called Moto Q and then added a member, which is the moto sync plugin gave it a name and it also asks for a "Device String", which i left blank as i do not know what is suppose to go there. Can someone help me sync my crap Q phone using kitchensync? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kmail problem "Can not preform LIST operation"
by Adam Jimerson 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

This is the second time a email on my POP3 mail server has caused kmail to spit out the "Can not preform LIST operation". After going through the web system for my email and cleaning it up Kmail works fine. I want to know if anyone here in the mailing list has any clue what in an email could cause kmail to do this so I can set up a filter on my mail account with the server to do something, probably send it my linuxmail.org email address, or if it is possable to use fetchmail and download the messages off of the server and feed them to kmail one by one until I hit the one that causes kmail to give this error and use that as a guide for that filter.

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