December 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] one more openoffice 3 question
by Istvan Gabor 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hello: In the latest stable openoffice 3 repository under noarch there are several language related packages, like: OpenOffice_org-hu-2.4.1.10-2.1.noarch.rpm etc. What are these file for? What are the differences between these and packages, like: OpenOffice_org-l10n-hu-3.0.0.3.6-2.1.noarch.rpm? TIA, IG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with popping in audio and stuttering graphics...
by Clayton 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I'm trying to trace down a problem I'm having with openSUSE 11.1. The symptoms are basically popping audio (periodic) and graphics slowdows. The audio popping is most noticeable in games where there is a fairly high demand on system resources. The audio is... crackly at times.. it cycles from perfect to poor. The audio problem also happens, for example, what I browse to a webpage that has embedded audio, or a flash video (eg YouTube). Then the audio pops (or rips) once very loudly a bit like "dragging the needle" sounded like on old records. It's very fast, very loud, and then audio plays normally. The graphics "slowdowns" are basically a huge drop in fps (pick any native Linux OpenGL game or any game playing in Cedega/Wine or whatever, it happens consistently in all OpenGL games) from, for example 70fps, down to 3 or 4 fps, and then after a few seconds, back up to 70 again. The OS is an openSUSE 11.1, default install plus the multimedia extras from the community repos ======== Kernel is 2.6.27.7-9-pae 32 bit ======== Hardware - AMD Athlon X2 6400+ - 4 GB RAM - nvidia 260GTX video card with nVidia binary drivers 180.18 Beta - Soundblaster 5.1 ======== One possibility suggested to me was that it might be a kernel thing... at least for the graphics, and suggested I try a 2.6.24 kernel... I haven't taken this step yet. I hate messing with kernels... unless it's a last resort. Overall, I would almost suspect that there is something running in the background that is periodically doing something... some task that is killing system performance. The usual suspects are removed... Beagle and Strigi are not installed, and Nepomuk is not running. I've checked all running services and shut down all but the essentials but it has had no effect. Anyone here have any ideas or suggestions... what can I do to trace this down? 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] No backup configuration in YaST 11.1
by JosipBroz 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi there. IIRC there was a default configuration in YaST 11.0 > System > System backup. You just had to customize it and you had a (somewhat) working backup strategy in place (with cron, anacron, and everything else pre-configured). Now, when you go to YaST > System > System backup, there's just this blank window staring at you. Am I supposed to be able to create a backup config from scratch? I'm not able to do that. Even if I try, it never runs (or it tries to backup 300 GB of data to a 2 GB partition). Any suggestions? Or, better: any pre-configured backup schemes to dig out or download from anywhere? -- 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] New 3 Column Web Template Available - Validated HTML 4.01, CSS
by David C. Rankin 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Per Jessen wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Never fails, that was the stuff I added at 2:00 am after having >> validated the >> template before putting in the final content. Easy fix though. >> >> Also, Per, do you use quanta? If so, how can I tell it to handle >> my php >> include statements so the css flows through for the preview? > > Hi David > > I did use quanta a while back, but I haven't for the last 3-4 years. I > know I have used 'kate' every now and then, but otherwise it's mostly > plain vi. With the latest syntax-highlighting it's become a lot easier. > > Wait - do you use php to include css? That sounds a little backward. > > > /Per > Per -- No way, I'm backwards, but not that backwards;-) Hey take a look are Version 2 of the little template. It is growing up. It now has some pretty slick dynamic vertical pop-out menus (pure css) as well as updated formatting for the right column, etc. It has taken a week or so of spare time (note the absence of list posts), but I'm happy with the results so far. With the content separated from the header, footer and menu, adding content is made a lot easier. (but it will still probably take me a year to get the rest done) I don't know if you have used quanta lately, but the 3.5 version is awesome. I love it! For pure editing it doesn't matter to me whether I use vi, kwrite, kate, or quanta, but for the sheer convenience the 'project' features of quanta provide, I haven't found anything to beat it yet. I have my working copy of my site on my laptop. In quanta, a simple right-click and choose "Upload Project.." and all edits are automatically ftp'd to my actual web server. Piece of cake. Plus since quanta is basically kate on web steriods, all my prior templates, etc. are accessible as well. To take a look at the new version of the template just use the links on the bottom right of the home page: http://www.3111skyline.com/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 9.1 aka 10.1 aka 11.1 aka lousy Christmas present?
by Felix Miata 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

On 2008/12/24 07:22 (GMT-0500) James Knott composed: > If things don't improve, 11.1 may be the one distro I skip. 9.1 was first 2.6 release, hardly a good release. 10.1 had a butchered package management system, definitely not a good release. 11.1? I'm not sure I've seen a clearly major guffaw, but there sure seems to be a lot of minors and near majors: KDE4 still isn't anywhere near as useful as KDE3. Wireless problems. Partitioner usability problems. RAID problems. Chopped off non-resizable columns in YaST2. Failure to boot. DVD access problems. Horrible Intel video performance. What did I miss? Novell should have stuck to an 8-9 month release plan and let 11.1 out Feb or March. I'm thinking my 10.2 replacement box may need to get 11.0 instead of 11.1. I need to decide soon. 11.0 could get done today instead of waiting for the retail 11.1 to arrive. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Atheros AR242X driver with openSUSE 11.1
by Doctor Who 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi all- I got my daughter a new laptop (Compaq Presario CQ50-142) for Christmas. It came with Vista, but I've now got openSUSE 11.1 on it. It's working well except for wireless at this point. It has an Atheros AR242X wireless card. I'd read on one of the forums that this would work 'out-of-the-box' will 11.1, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I was hoping some on this list had experience getting this working and share how they did it. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.0 KDE3 - repeated 'knotify' crashes
by David C. Rankin 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Listmates, On 11.0 x86-64, KDE 3.5.10 "release 33.1", I keep getting knotify crashes. They happens fairly regularly. Basically, something calls knotify and then I get the backtrace window but it doesn't capture any useful information. See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/knotify-crash.jpg They happen more frequently with quanta, but I can't say it is exclusively quanta. I have looked at knotify --help-all and there doesn't seem to be a way to directly test it by piping text into it. Does anybody have ideas of what I can check or how to troubleshoot? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1 install and work-arounds posted - I can add more
by David C. Rankin 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Listmates, I have posted my 11.1 install review and the workarounds required as well as links to the relevant bug reports open. If you have an issue you want me to add, let me know and I'm happy to do it. This way I can keep track of what still need bug reports written the next time I visit bugzilla. The 11.1 install and workarounds are under the "openSuSE Howtos" menu entry under "openSuSE 11.1 Install" at http://www.3111skyline.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] DNS configuration question
by Simon Roberts 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi all, I just moved my internal DNS services from SuSE 9.3 to 11.1. In the process I found a couple of issues. First, and the one I'd rather like to fix is that although everything is working from a client perspective, I get a stream of errors in the logfile (so it'll fill up pretty fast, and presumably isn't working as cleanly/efficiently as it should be). The errors are of the form: Date... host... named[pid]: too many timeouts resolving 'address.somewhere.com/A' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS As I say, despite this, the client's perspective is that everything is working (it's not even slow). Any suggestions? Also, for info, the 11.1 install appeared to create all the necessary parts for this, but set up the named process to run in a jail, but gave ownership of the jail and everything in it to root, such that the named process was complaining that it couldn't write to it's own directories. (named had group-level privileges on these directories, but they were 755, so that didn't help much). This error appeared to prevent named working, but after I chown -R named /var/lib/named it started working. Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CIFS mount question
by Simon Roberts 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi all, I'm trying to configure a friend's laptop (OpenSuSE 11.1/Gnome) to auto mount a windoze share. I have a line in the /etc/fstab file like this: //192.168.2.3/Export /home/user/mnt cifs user=user,password=secret,uid=user,soft 0 0 Now, this works just fine and dandy if I issue a call to "sudo mount -all" but I'd like to find a way to have the system create the mount automatically as soon as it determines that it is able. I had hoped that the "soft" element in the options might persuade it to do something on those lines, but no luck. Anyway, any suggestions how I should do that? Also, I've noticed that the mount takes quite a time to start up (and using smbclient with heavy debug enabled, I noticed that the system was trying all kinds of things before it finally settled on a way to connect successfully) Any suggestions how I tune it to try only the "successful" approach? TIA Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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