December 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: How to set up CUPS for shared printer?
by jdd-gmane 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

I often find the CUPS web interface more friendly than YaST (as of printer setup). The main problem I have i that I not yet understand the meaning of all the options for network setup and the "search printer" never worked on suse (it works on mandriva!!) My main printer is an HP 5m laserjet, one of the most common HW on the market! I finally got thet it have to be setup as "socket" (whatever this may mean) notice it's not better on windows jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenSuse 11.2 and Win7 Dual Boot - 64bit
by vyaaghrah-nix＠yahoo.com 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Hi Everybody have anybody tried doing OpenSuse 11.2 and Win7 Dual boot both OS 64bit, on Notebook. Would like to know the experience for the same and any pitfalls while doing so. Regards Abhijeet.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] Merry Chrstmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
by Basil Chupin 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

To everyone who participates, or even lurks, in this forum, season's salutations! Be careful, and considerate, about what you do this festive season because we all want to see you back here next year. BC -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] GDB 7.0
by Lindsay Mathieson 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

I had a search but couldn't find a repo with it - does anyone know of a 7.0 GDB repo for 11.2 and the Unstable weekly trunk? I need it for debugging with KDevelop Thanks, -- Lindsay http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Windows XP, 11.2, and Seagate HDs - sort of....
by Basil Chupin 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

I apologise for the following longish message which, possibly, may belong in the off-topic list... but also doesn't belong there.... Please bear with me.. Back last May I bought 2 brand new, "matched", Seagate 160GB HDs. There was no way I could install 11.2 MS-anything or RC-anything on one of them. It would *"install"* but at the first boot grub could not find the operating system. Doing some testing on the HD came up with contrary results: one set of tools showed that there was nothing wrong with the HD (using Seagate's SeaTools) but then using the Windows Scandisk from a bootable floppy showed that there were bad sectors at the start of the HD. OK, I put this HD away, and now the shop were I bought it will replace the HD when I take it back. Fine. However, the second Seagate appears to be OK, and I used it for my wife's computer last weekend to install 11.2. All went well, and she now has 11.2. *But*, it takes forever for 11.2 to boot on her machine :-( . And after it does, the "HD in use" light remains ON. When I then reboot and check the file system (default, ext4), using "e2fsck -p /dev/sda1", shows that there is no problem with the file system, the "HD in use" light stops being on for the rest of the day while the computer is in use. My concern now is: is there a problem with *this* Seagate HD which should also be replaced by the shop or is there something else which needs to be done to stop the "HD in use" light showing? The second hassle. A couple of weeks ago, when I was interstate, I bought a couple of 500GB Western Digital HDs. These are now the ones which have 11.2 installed on them, and they are working fine... with a possible qualification. The qualification is that I installed XP SP2 to start with, before installing oS 11.2, and created my "usual" ntfs partitions on both HDs. No drama here. However, I also have an external 500GB Maxtor USB drive - factory formatted in ntfs- which I use for backing-up files both from both Linux and 'old' installation/s of XP (residing on other set/s of HDs). The problem - which has me totally bamboozled - is that I can copy, using mc (midnight commander), files from the 'old' installation/s of XP to the external USB and then can copy using mc from the external Maxtor to the partitions on the new installation of XP.... *BUT* I am unable to copy the same files from external USB Maxtor to the new XP installation using anything from within the newly installed XP :-( : there is a "pretend" copy of the first couple of files but then the whole process slows to ~20kb/s, and in the final result NOTHING has been copied- the file name/s contain/s 0 bytes. The error message in XP is, if I recall correctly, is along the lines of, "cannot write to the destination <disk/directory>" or similar. I have done chkdsk <X>: /f on all of the partitions while in XP and all partitions (including the external Maxtor) have no errors Sorry about asking about this here, but if you can throw some light on this hassle of mine I'd be most grateful. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Signature verification failed for file 'repomd.xml' from repository 'NVIDIA Repository'
by Lindsay Mathieson 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

I'm getting the following when manually updating -------------------------- sudo zypper up Signature verification failed for file 'repomd.xml' from repository 'NVIDIA Repository'. Warning: This might be caused by a malicious change in the file! Continuing might be risky. Continue anyway? [yes/no] (no): -------------------------- I've been saying no for now. Is this something I should be concerned about? -- Lindsay http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] v4l via command line?
by Boris Epstein 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Hello listmates, Does anybody know if there is a good way to manipulate V4L devices (cameras, video capture boards, etc.) via command line? Let's say, if I want to generate a movie/images/video feed without running a graphical interface such as xawtv or tvtime. Thanks. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] extra keys (XF86*)
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Hi, I finally came around to finish my openSUSE 11.2 installation on my main machine which has a Fujitsu-Siemens keyboard connected which has a few extra keys. These were completely working just out of the box with openSUSE 11.1. Now with openSUSE 11.2 some are not working anymore. I actually only use XF86WWW and XF86Mail. Both are displayed like this with xev: KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 49101139, (52,146), root:(1309,612), state 0x10, keycode 158 (keysym 0x1008ff2e, XF86WWW), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001, root 0x1a7, subw 0x0, time 49122308, (5,67), root:(1262,533), state 0x10, keycode 223 (keysym 0x1008ff19, XF86Mail), same_screen YES, XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 163 XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Now XF86WWW can be assigned in my window manager and works correctly. For XF86Mail it doesn't work. Basically the only difference I can see is that extra output: "XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 163" Is my issue related to that? Or any other idea how to fix it? Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Please give more information in answers...
by Robert Smits 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

On December 21, 2009 05:28:03 am wrote: > On Sunday, 2009-12-20 at 23:41 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: > > Is there a straigtforward guide to setting up CUPS in an opensuse 11.0 > > environment that I can follow? > > Simply use YaST, let it do the job for you. > > -- > Cheers, > Helpful Poster Thanks for the reply, Helpful Poster. I appreciate that you took the time to make a suggestion. This brings me, however, to make a point about replies to requests for help. (And to be clear, this is not aimed at the helpful poster, because I'm guilty of doing it as well.) Our habit of making what seem to be simple answers to simple questions are not perceived as simple answers. To many readers, they either seem completely dismissive - as in go read the f$%^&ing manual, or are so lacking in practical how do I do it terms that the poster simply mutters under their breath about damned Linux geeks and goes back to the dark side. And yes, I appreciate it that some posters don't read the manual, but that isn't the point. At the very least, we need to describe the actions in much clearer terms than the example above. Telling me to go to YAST/Hardware/Printer and that I can set up shared printing there is ever so much more helpful. Let's be nice to each other. -- Bob Smits bob(a)rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to set up CUPS for shared printer?
by Robert Smits 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

I have a number of computers on an NFS network at home. Most are running OpenSuse 11.0, several use Open Suse 11.2 Two of the these machines have no printer of their own, my laptop and one of my desktops. I'd like to configure CUPS to share the two printers on my old desktop - an HP-1220c large format printer and a Brother HL-5140 with those on the network. Unfortunately, when I try to understand how this works, all the documentation I find assumes I'm doing this with config files that I have to manually edit. Nothing seems to refer to the CUPS server I connect to at http://localhost:631. And when I try to look up some of the files they don't even exist on my machine. Is there a straigtforward guide to setting up CUPS in an opensuse 11.0 environment that I can follow? Recommendations would be appreciated. The CUPS version on my old desktop is 1.37. -- Bob Smits bob(a)rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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