September 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] MythTV Video Capture/TV Card Recommendation
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Hi! Anyone is using MythTV? I would really appreciate if you share your info - which video capture/TV cards you are using? Does it supports HD, simultaneus capture from several TV channels. Have you installed remote control for MythTV? Thanks in advance for any info. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] knetworkmanager stopped working
by Anton Moiseev 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hi, I had to switch off the notebook in a bad way - by holding the power key. After rebooting knetworkmanager stopped connecting to wireless networks. I can see the network list, but when I click on the network name the tray icon just stays gray and nothing happens. It even does not try to do anything - previously the tray icon changed to blue gear at least for a half of second, even if the connection could not be established - now it just remains gray all the time. I did try to remove knetworkmanager config file from ~/.kde dir, tried to login as another user, tried to remove NetworkManager-kde package and install it again - nothing helped here. I have installed gnome and tried its native networkmanaged applet - this one did work. Knetworkmanager still does not. What else can I do here? thank'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] Firefox 3.0 crashes when I try to print
by Bruce Ferrell 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Have anyone else seen this? Any suggestions for how to begin trouble shooting? This is on OpenSuse 10.2 installed from the Mozilla repos on download.suse.org for 10.2. Java seems off too. some java applets fail to run TIA Bruce -- 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] Samba Frustration
by Kai Ponte 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

On Friday 26 September 2008 02:10:46 pm you wrote: > * Kai Ponte <kai(a)perfectreign.com> [09-26-08 16:53]: > > I went to YaST > System Services (Runlevel) and checked on smbfs. It had > > an asterick next to it and smb. I hit enable and smb started. However, > > smbfs gave tme the message, > > > > /etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured): > > > > Not sure what that is. > > confusion, rcsmb /= rcsmbfs OK. I see a cryptic name and just figured it was related. :O > > > Running rcsmb status still shows as dead. > > > > Trying to connect from Windows still shows unable. > > > > > Is your Firewall up ? > > > Try disabling it. > > > > No firewall. > > as root: rcsmb start > rcnmb start > > both *must* be running, then try access from windoz machine > > start -> run -> \\111.222.333.444\ Thanks patrick. However, I get nyah... kai@xwing:~> su Password: xwing:/home/kai # rcsmb start Starting Samba SMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/smbd.pid exists. done xwing:/home/kai # rcnmb start Starting Samba NMB daemon - Warning: /var/run/samba/nmbd.pid exists. failed Checking messages... xwing:/home/kai # tail /var/log/messages Sep 26 14:37:23 xwing smbd[30295]: [2008/09/26 14:37:23, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3521) Sep 26 14:37:23 xwing smbd[30295]: Global parameter guest account found in service section! Sep 26 14:37:24 xwing smbd[30296]: [2008/09/26 14:37:24, 0] passdb/pdb_interface.c:guest_user_info(256) Sep 26 14:37:24 xwing smbd[30296]: guest_user_info: Unable to locate guest account [smbguest]! Sep 26 14:37:24 xwing smbd[30296]: [2008/09/26 14:37:24, 0] smbd/server.c:main(1059) Sep 26 14:37:24 xwing smbd[30296]: ERROR: failed to setup guest info. Sep 26 14:37:32 xwing nmbd[30312]: [2008/09/26 14:37:32, 0] nmbd/nmbd_subnetdb.c:create_subnets(245) Sep 26 14:37:32 xwing nmbd[30312]: create_subnets: unable to create any subnet from given interfaces. nmbd is terminating Sep 26 14:37:32 xwing nmbd[30312]: [2008/09/26 14:37:32, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(771) Sep 26 14:37:32 xwing nmbd[30312]: ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting. xwing:/home/kai # In doing some searching I found various items about permissions and whatnot. Apparently I have a configuration file - smb.conf - that contains some information. Here it is... [global] server string = Samba file and print server hosts allow = 127. 192.168.0. interfaces = 127.0.0.1/8 192.168.0.0/24 bind interfaces only = yes remote announce = 192.168.0.255 remote browse sync = 192.168.0.255 printcap name = cups cups options = raw printing = cups guest account = smbguest log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log max log size = 1000 username level = 6 password level = 6 unix password sync = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 local master = no domain master = no preferred master = no os level = 33 logon drive = m: logon home = \\%L\homes\%u logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u logon script = %G.bat name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast dns proxy = no client use spnego = no client signing = no client schannel = no server schannel = no allow trusted domains = no obey pam restrictions = yes enable spoolss = yes client plaintext auth = no follow symlinks = no update encrypted = yes passwd chat timeout = 120 username map = /etc/samba/smbusers passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u' passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *ReType*new*password* %n\n *passwd*changed*\n add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null '%u' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -c 'Samba User Account' -s /dev/null -g '%g' '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g' delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u' delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/userdel '%u' '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g sambamachines -c 'Samba Machine Account' -s /dev/null -M '%u' machine password timeout = 120 winbind uid = 16777216-33554431 winbind gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /dev/null winbind use default domain = yes winbind separator = @ winbind cache time = 360 winbind trusted domains only = yes winbind nested groups = no winbind nss info = no include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf workgroup = vims [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home read only = no share modes = no locking = no [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/netlogon share modes = no locking = no [profiles] comment = User Profiles path = /var/samba/profiles read only = no browseable = no locking = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = yes share modes = no locking = no [pdf-documents] path = /home/pdf-documents comment = Converted PDF Documents read only = no guest ok = yes [pdf-printer] path = /tmp comment = PDF Printer Service printable = yes guest ok = yes use client driver = yes printing = bsd print command = /usr/bin/gadmin-samba-pdf %s %u [kai] path = /home/kai/ guest account = at case sensitive = no strict locking = no msdfs proxy = no username = kai hosts allow = guest ok = yes read only = no -- kai www.filesite.org || 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] Printing to PDF from Firefox - Something Broke
by Kai Ponte 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Summfing broke: I often print files from Firefox to PDF. I have been doing this for some time and on a regular basis (receipts for registration and whatnot) on my current system - openSUSE 10.3/KDE. I went to print - of all things - a registration for LinuxDay 2008. (http://www.novell.com/linux/linuxday/register.html) I no longer have the print-to-file option that I did with the option to select PDF or Postscript. I went ahead and selected the Print to File button next to the drop-down list of printers in the print dialog box. I was given simply the option of a name. I went ahead and selected myname.pdf. I ended up with a useless postscript file. What happened? What did I mess up? Here's the firefox I have: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080716 SUSE/2.0.0.16-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.16 I've included the messed up file. Also linked here: http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2008/2008_Linux_Day.pdf -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

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[opensuse] PDF File conversion
by Mark Misulich 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, a couple of months ago I wrote about the large file sizes that I was getting when I converted a word .doc file to OO odt file, with the intention of later converting it to pdf. They were in the size of megabites. This is a bit of an ongoing saga for me, as this time I made up the newsletter for the organization using Open Office from the start, and then attempted to convert the odt file to pdf in linux. I ended up having to go back to windows in order to get the file sizes to a manageable size, the linux files were too large. Here is a rundown of what I did. 1. I made up the newsletter using Open Office. The final file size was 198kb. Not too bad, I thought that it was going to work out as I expected the file to be smaller yet when I converted that to a pdf file. 2. I converted the odt file to pdf. The resultant pdf file was 758.8kb. I am shooting for around 200kb, but will send a file up to 300kb. Any larger and it takes too long for the dialup users to download it. 3. I tried to play around with the pdf conversion process by reducing picture quality, and/or reducing the quality of the total pdf document. I produced two other pdf's this way, and believe it or not when I reduced the quality of the document to 50% it actually produced a larger file on my first attempt. That file was 789kb. The second attempt (30% quality) was 750 kb. I decided to save the newsletter odt file in doc format to see how large it would be, before I quit linux for Windows. It came out to 270kb. I was hoping to open it in word in winxp, and then convert it to pdf. But the formatting was so messed up it was easier to start over fresh in Word. But then, they tell me it isn't going to work right when try to save it as a doc file in open office. The new word file displaying the same information (plus an extra couple of pages of text that I forgot on the copy that I produced in OO) as the newsletter produced in odt came out to 220kb. 4. Those linux pdf files were too large to use, so I went back to WinXP and made up the file in Word (220kb). I then converted that to pdf, and got a file size of 270kb. That is useable, and I don't know of any way to make it smaller in Windows unless I start removing some pictures from the newsletter. As it stands now, I think that I will have to stick with windows for this task unless someone has a brainstorm and thinks of a way to make these linux pdf files smaller. 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] bash pipe
by drek 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hello, In a script I want to know in which directory I am, but I don't want to know the whole path. I thought it was easy, but I got an errormessage: drek@laptop:~> pwd | basename basename: missing operand Try `basename --help' for more information. I expected to get the output from pwd ( /home/drek/ ) piped to basename. So I expected to get "drek" as the final result. But unfortunately.... Anyone with an explanation? Thanks, André -- 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] Kmail Migration
by Ritchie Fraser 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 00:42:36 chris h wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2008 16:07:38 Ritchie Fraser wrote: > > I use KMail 1.9.6 and mine is in > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail > > Right. That's where the mail is actually stored per user. However the > filter and config settings are not stored there if you look carefully. > Still trying to track that location down. > > Best and thanks Oops. Didn't read the problem close enough ;-) I read that kmail keeps it filters in the /opt/kde3/share/config/kmailrc under the [Filter XX] section. http://ygingras.net/b/2007/12/exporting-kmail-filters -- Kind Regards, Ritchie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ritchie Fraser Web: http://www.rpfraser.uklinux.net Registered Linux User #255860

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[opensuse] Problem with ACPI on suse 11, it showes wrong temperature
by Bartek Waclawik 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hi everyone. I have laptop HP nx9420 with Suse 11 on it, and I have a problem with ACPI. ACPI showes temperatures of CPU too high. In fact the cooler works so loud. What I must do to solve this problem. Is there a specific kernel module? Please help.... Regards from Poland, Barth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Just installed phpPgAdmin and can't login ...
by Duaine & Laura Hechler 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

.... what is default name and password ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)charter.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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