July 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Firefox: Sounds on mouse movement
by Mark V 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hi Group, Appreciate any suggestions about what might be causing the following behavior: In Firefox (SUSE/3.0-1.3 Firefox/3.0), while moving the mouse around a page I hear a _very_ faint background sound. The only Firefox Add-ons I have installed are Delicious and Tab mix plus. I'm at a loss as to how to turn this sound off. the sound is just audible and becoming quite annoying. To give a more accurate description of the sound I've tried turning up the volume using Kmix, to no avail. My system is openUSSE 11.0, KDE 3.5.9, with patches applied. Firefox and other apps were installed using the openSUSE 11.0 setup/install process. Appreciate any hints or suggestions. Cheers Mark -- 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 creating bootsplash animations.
by Rafael E. Herrera 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hello, Has anybody tweaked with the Suse bootsplash? I'm trying to create a bootsplash theme and I can't create an animation file out of the images I have. I've used Gimp to create one or more images with transparent background, saved them in PNG format and used ImageMagick's convert utility to convert them into an MNG animation. Using the display utility to view the result I end up with a black image or an image with a solid white background, etc. not the transparent background images like the ones in the Suse bootsplash theme. The home page for this feature (http://www.bootsplash.org/) has a page for animation creation, but it seems out of date. Any ideas? -- Rafael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Network Printing to Active Directory
by Kai Ponte 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

One thing I've never been quite able to get working from my laptops is network printing. I have openSUSE 10.3 right now on a given laptop. (Another one is in the box, ready to be installed with 11.0 or possibly SLED.) I am on the corporate network in that I have a DHCP lease on an IP address and get through to the intraweb on all available ports. I can also use konqueror to connect remote shares using smb://username@ip.address/share Now, I want to print to the various network printers we have. I've looked and cannot seem to get a straight answer. How do I setup either KPrinter or CUPS to print to a remote printer on an active directory network? -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4.1
by Chris Arnold 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Opensuse 11 with kde 4.1 (now)...And still very disappointed in kde 4.1. Widgets still don't work. Still can't copy stuff to the desktop without using a file manager. Still can't right click something on the desktop and "send to trash". Still kontact does not work right for me (connection times out). Ark still does not work right...And on and on and on. I usually stay quiet about this but i thought with 4.1 things were going to be different (at least some). Just so i make sure i am updating from the right repo, i update using http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS…. Is this where i should be updating? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] HPET and SuSE 10.3
by Clive Rogers 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hi All, I have followed and implemented the postings of lockups on this distro and number 11 and still I suffer from some form of lockup. Running an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ with 2 gig of memory. 2 IDE hard drives, 1 IDE DVD-RW and 1 SATA DVD-RW. All this is on an ASUS M2V-MX motherboard. Running the Default Kernel 2.6.22.18-0.2. After Googling and reading the post here and still getting the lockups I thought maybe its something to do with the HPET which my other PC has in the bios and Vista won't run properly without it. I read on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPET that the Kernel of 2.6 also requires the HPET to be turned on in the bios. This motherboard does not have HPET. So I can not turn it on. Is anyone on the list running 10.3 or 11.0 without HPET turned on in the bios ? Is anyone running any of the above distros without HPET in the bios ? If so how are you getting around rtc-cmos which again is mentioned in the wikipedia page ? Would I be better running an older kernel that does not require the HPET ? -- Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26:29ºN 01:27:46ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] (SOLVED) Network Printing to Active Directory
by Kai Ponte 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

A few days back I had asked how to go about printing to AD in a Wintendo environment from my (not part of the domain) laptop. I found the answer. First off, I had been trying to print using SMB. This works for my home 'network' and I can print to my wife's Win2K computer using smb://192.168.0.101/lilly without a problem. In setting up my local Vista workstation, I had an issue, though. For some reason, smb printing does not work in the corporate world. However, this is still a non-issue. I just needed to figure out what to do. This page - http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html - gave me the answer. I use ipp or Internet printing protocol. In the case of the vista workstation, I had forgotten to enable TCP/IP printing in Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off. In there, you enable LPD print services and LPR port monitor. This then lets me print using lpd as the protocol in CUPS: lpd://10.16.15.74/lj1320 That's lpd://ip.address.of.machine/shared_printer_name_with_no_spaces. As for the network printers - in the first case, I was trying to print using smb://username\password@server/printer. That doesn't fly. According to the page referenced above, I needed to use IPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol) to print. In CUPS admin, I setup the printer to simply print to the IP address and the first queue: ipp://10.16.15.51/ipp Bingo! -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- 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] oS 11.0 x64 KDE4 kmail transport issue [SOLVED ?]
by Vahe Avedissian 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

From: "auxsvr(a)gmail.com" <auxsvr(a)gmail.com> To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Cc: Vahe Avedissian <vyav(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:30:35 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] oS 11.0 x64 KDE4 kmail transport issue On Thursday 24 July 2008, Vahe Avedissian wrote: > > Folks, > > Another problem plaguing my kmail is it keeps complaiing I have an invalid > transport for sending email. I have seen some discussion on this but > nothing I tried has worked. I am running opensuse 11.0 x64, KDE4.0.4, and > kmail 1.9.51 > > REceiving email works fine but I cannot send. with opensuse 10.3 settings > for sending worked fine. I have checked with evolution that my smtp > settings are indeed still correct. > > Any suggestion what to rtry, or is this a lost cause for now? >It works here using kwallet, did you copy the KDE3 kmail folder to KDE4? Try >deleting your account and recreating it. Did you try kmail with an empty .kde4 >directory? I setup kmail to use kwallet and it (kmail) no longer complains about an invalid transport and sending mail now actually works! It looks like kwallet MUST be used with kmail now. This was not required with earlier versions. One more comment. I cannot get kmail to store my outgoing POP server password in kwallet. It seems to only care about sending and not receiving. That seems odd to me. Vahe -- 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] oS 11.0 x64 KDE4 kmail transport issue [SOLVED ?]
by Vahe Avedissian 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I meant incoming POP server... ----- Original Message ---- From: Vahe Avedissian <vyav(a)yahoo.com> To: auxsvr(a)gmail.com; opensuse(a)opensuse.org Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:26:09 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] oS 11.0 x64 KDE4 kmail transport issue [SOLVED ?] From: "auxsvr(a)gmail.com" <auxsvr(a)gmail.com> To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Cc: Vahe Avedissian <vyav(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:30:35 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] oS 11.0 x64 KDE4 kmail transport issue On Thursday 24 July 2008, Vahe Avedissian wrote: > > Folks, > > Another problem plaguing my kmail is it keeps complaiing I have an invalid > transport for sending email. I have seen some discussion on this but > nothing I tried has worked. I am running opensuse 11.0 x64, KDE4.0.4, and > kmail 1.9.51 > > REceiving email works fine but I cannot send. with opensuse 10.3 settings > for sending worked fine. I have checked with evolution that my smtp > settings are indeed still correct. > > Any suggestion what to rtry, or is this a lost cause for now? >It works here using kwallet, did you copy the KDE3 kmail folder to KDE4? Try >deleting your account and recreating it. Did you try kmail with an empty .kde4 >directory? I setup kmail to use kwallet and it (kmail) no longer complains about an invalid transport and sending mail now actually works! It looks like kwallet MUST be used with kmail now. This was not required with earlier versions. One more comment. I cannot get kmail to store my outgoing POP server password in kwallet. It seems to only care about sending and not receiving. That seems odd to me. Vahe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.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] A 100% Linux / Open Source inmates rehabilitation program
by M. Fioretti 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Greetings, everybody. May I ask you to have a look to this article of mine about Linux and Open Source principles in education at www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/072908-ex-inmates.html (*): "New project uses Linux and cooperative development techniques to train ex-inmates for personal and family life." and let me know of any similar story, that is cases where any Linux distribution or other FOSS tool is used either in this or in other equally challenging environments? Thank you in advance for any feedback, Marco (*) Digg link at: http://digg.com/politics/Ex_inmates_apply_open_source_SW_methods_to_rehabil… -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Change 11.0 from SunJava 1.6 to IBMJava 1.6
by Ed Harrison 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I have always preferred IBM java to Sun's. When I look in /usr/lib/jvm, I see all these symlinks within the directory and also to /etc/alternatives. How can I make IBM java the default for all these? Ed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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