January 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] logitech RX300 not recognized
by Julien Michielsen 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

It often happens that I "loose" my mouse under X (suse 10.3), and I checked the configuration of my mouse. It appeared the logitech RX300 is not in the list of logitech mouses, and I also noticed non of the other models gives a 100 % working alternative. When I "tell" it to be model X it usually appears OK: clicking the left button turns the left button of the displayed mouse green, likewise for the right button, and turning the scroll wheel displays a black arrow. But when I go into test, I should be able to change the position and the size of the screen as it is filled. One can click on the size- or the position-tab, and thus move the borders of the frame. Often I could not even click the size- or the position-tab, and not even click on "cancel", making that only Alt-Ctl- backspace could cancel the test. Maybe anyone else with a logitech RX300 had better experiences? And shouldn't the logitech RX300 be recognised by opensuse 10.3? Thanks -- Julien Michielsen julien_at_michkloo.xs4all.nl -- 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 /usr/bin thing
by Bob S 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hello SuSE users, While searching for files in /usr/bin I noticed something that seems odd to me. There is a folder in there named X11. It is a link to the same folder. If you open it, it shows the exact same thing as /usr/bin. You can continue opening the X11 directory until you have a /usr/bin//X11/X11/X11/X11 file open on ad-infitum. They all show the exact same files and megabytes. What is this? Can somebody explain the purpose? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Company firewall & Online Update Configuration in openSUSE 10.3
by Alexandr Malusek 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi, I install openSUSE 10.3 on a machine in an internal network which is protected by a company firewall. I skipped online update during the installation and everything finished OK. But now, when I start the Online Update Configuration, I get the following message in a pop-up window: Error: No update server could be added to your configuration. I suspect that our company firewall causes the problem. (It may also be related to a web proxy server but I tried two different proxy servers and the result was the same.) How should the company firewall be configured to allow online updates on openSUSE 10.3 to work properly? (I don't have access to the firewall by myself so I don't see which traffic is blocked. I can only ask its administrators for a reconfiguration.) -- A.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] Re: [opensuse-offtopic] Right persons in power?
by Aaron Kulkis 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Billie Walsh wrote: > At the risk of pissing off my fellow countrymen. > > Politics in this country has become a joke. It's no longer about the > issues of what's right or wrong. It IS about how much money a candidate > can raise/spend. The offices of power are bought and sold to the highest > bidder. Office holders are bribed every day by the power brokers. It has > gotten so bad that less that half the people in this country even try to > vote. There's nothing new about that. Historically, only a small percentage of the population voted -- a primary reason being that until the federal government got into the business of wealth transfer, the average person didn't have much personal interest in who was in charge of the federal government because the federal government wasn't trying to play mommy and daddy and rich uncle and demented step-sister all at the same time. > there hasn't been a choice of the "the best candidate" in some > time. It's now more of a case of who's going to do the least damage. [ > Kind of scary to think Dubya is the one that's doing the least damage. ] If the Congress didn't spend so much time trying to buy the favor of some voters by stealing from others, and if the Presidents weren't constantly egging them on to continue, most people STILL wouldn't care who was elected, let alone ran for president. > > It's not the Muslim that's going to take over our country so no need to > worry about what size towel to wrap around your head. It's the religious > far right. Ask your friends over in London and Paris about that... neighborhoods where if you're not the right RELIGION will get you killed (regardless of what race you are). In the UK, they're called "no-go zones" > We will all have to wear black suits with long coats. Our > women will no longer be allowed to wear makeup and wear pants. Dresses > only for them. We will have to cover our heads, black hats with flat > brims for the men and bonnets for the ladies. And we ALL will have to Sounds just like every place I've been to in the Mid-East. > carry around our Bible's. Non Christians will no longer be allowed to > live here. No other religion other than the state approved religion will > be allowed. Uhhhh....yeah...riiiiight. > > Actually, I think I would prefer the Muslim's to what's happening now. > I'll choose Quakers and Amish over the Muslims any day... > > I never miss a chance to vote my conscience. I'm a registered voter and > I do it every chance I get. I'm a Viet Nam era veteran. I ENLISTED to > serve my country, I wasn't drafted. Same here....except I did two stints in the desert war (1991 and 2006-7) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Major problem with update sources! System trashed, unable to update new install
by Mike Johnson 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

There appears to be a problem with the update source at: http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/ and by definition mirrors thereof. On Friday, I accepted an update offered by the updater as usual. During the update, several errors were displayed, but the update continued. Once the update was finished, I had a crash of evolution when I tried to send a mail. So I rebooted, and to cut a long story short, found out that hundreds of core packages had been uninstalled, including rpm itself. I can provide a URL to download the zipped log from the fateful update session on request. After re-installing from scratch (no luck with repair), I find that I can't install an update source due to the same error that seems to have triggered the mass-uninstall in the first place. The checksum on patch-fetchmsttfonts.sh-4347.xml appears to be wrong. YaST won't install the update source because of this. Is anyone working on fixing this? My system got hosed and I can't even re-install to the same level. Thankfully all my personal data is OK. (Regular backups). I hope that I am the only one hit by this..... Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] boot installe system
by jdd 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hello, I often use the "boot installed system" option of any openSUSE install CD/DVD But I don't know if:how the same thing can be done by hand, for example from the rescue systèm (going through the install cd boot is long and boring) I think this have something to do with rdev, but the doc is hard to understand thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A couple things i see in KDE4
by Chris Arnold 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

The first thing is when i installed an app, i could not find it in the kmenu. In kde3->kmenu->applications->new programs, i see new apps listed. Does kde4 list new apps? Second thing, is it possible to have just kde4 installed (and not kde3)? Third thing, the trash, my computer and one other icon were question marks and did not launch. Forth thing, i did not see a way to configure the panel. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] strange IP
by jdd 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hello :-)) Any time networkmanager fail to find a dhcp server (for example if there are none available :-)) it gives me the IP 169.254.16.90 shouldn't it continue searching (may be the server is just rebooting) and from where do this IP come?? (I have no idea, never used such one and nslookup dont give anything) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] different locations for init-values?
by Linda Walsh 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

I noticed that some startup scripts get values from /etc/defaults/<appname>, though most get it from /etc/sysconfig/<appname>. Are ones from '/etc/defaults/' "foreign" packages that were adapted to suse? Just curious...:-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host
by Kai Ponte 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

On Fri, January 11, 2008 7:25 pm, John Andersen wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 7:19 PM, PerfectReign <kai(a)perfectreign.com> wrote: >> On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUSE >> 10.3 >> as the guest. I'm wondering - and I've googled this - how do I mount >> the host filesystem so I can do stuff. I want to burn a DVD with >> openSUSE, since there are no good tools in Windows to do this which >> match K3B. >> >> Ideas? > cifsmount Thanks. That'd be great if I were (a) using the command line and (b) mounting a cifs volume (which I do already with smb:\\user@domain\share What about inside VMWare? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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