December 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: Fighting Thunderbird
by jdd-gmane 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Le 22/12/2009 09:17, JC Francois a écrit : > 2. What is the best strategy to prevent a package from being upgraded > with YaST2? if desperate, try making the TB folder read only? (the programm one, not the data one) 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] Open pdf files in embedded viewer in Google Chrome
by Bogdan Cristea 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Is there a way to open pdf files into an embedded viewer in Google Chrome exactly as it happens in firefox ? -- 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 11.1 2xAMD64 - cannon untar, but tar is ok ?
by Josef Karliak 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Hi everybody, on Opensuse 11.1 64-bit on AMD athlon 4050 CPU (two x64 cores) I could't untar my tar-ed archives. Archives was tared on the same machine. I've tried to reinstall tar with SW management. Didn't helped. Thanks J.K. -- 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] oowriter issue?
by Doug McGarrett 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

At 02:04 PM 12/21/2009 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: >On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jon Cosby <jon(a)jcosby.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:24 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I have a "word" doc that I can open and edit via a windows install of >>> oowriter 3.0.0. I last saved the doc from that environment. >>> >>> But from OS 11.2 with OpenOffice_org-writer-3.1.1.4-1.1.4.x86_64 >>> installed, it opens as garbage. >>> >>> Are there some known major issues with 3.1.1.4? >>> >> >> A bug has been reported, with a partial solution: >> >> <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564274>https://bugzilla.novell. com/show_bug.cgi?id=564274 >> >> Is it really necessary to use the MS Office format? I do fine using the >> OD. The current MS Office has native support and Sun provides plug-ins >> for older versions. That's assuming they don't have OOo installed >> already. Unless someone specifically requests MSO, I always go with the >> open format. > >Thanks, the fix (removing the kde specific oo extension) worked for >this doc anyway. > >Regardless I also have it OD format now, but I get lots of incoming >docs in MSO format, so at a minimum I need to be able to open them. >And the bug prevented doing so for this doc. > >Also, as of what version of MSO is OD support native? In particular >in the just the last 6 months or so I've started receiving docx and >xlsx docs on a routine basis, so if MSO 2007 supports it, I might >follow your lead since the world seems to be assuming MSO2007 is >generically available. > >Greg I have had problems in the recent days with OOo. (Windows 7.) The document went fine, but when I attempted to save it as a .rtf, it apparently didn't. It saved it in some non-standard file type that nothing else in the world understands. Not even other computer systems with OOo on them. I tried to email the file to someone, and it came out garbage. With considerable difficulty, I sent the file to the Windows XP emulation, where I had reinstalled WordPerfect 3, which doesn't work on Win 7, (PAH!) It transferred fairly easily, except for sentence/paragraph breaks. When I then sent the file, (in .doc format) it worked perfectly. OOo needs to clean up its act, if it intends to emulate the .doc or .rtf file standard of M/S. I don't have Word, and won't, but I'm not sure I'll ever use OOo again. It's a pain to have to use an emulator to run a standard, useful program like WordPerfect, and I wish I hadn't converted to Win 7 just to get a reasonable wakeup time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Audio Volume Low
by Mark Misulich 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Hi, I have been trying to get my skype to work with pulseaudio on this Toshiba U505 laptop that I am using, and followed the suggestions for doing so in the opensuse skype howto. It was without success, so I got rid of pulseaudio and went back to alsa, and now skype works. I configured the sound card and set the card output volume to 100% via yast. The sound card is a 828011(ICH9 Family) Audio Controller and uses the HDA Intel driver. I have kmix set to the highest volumes available. The problem is that when I try to play a dvd in Mplayer or Kaffeine, the volume is pretty low. I played around with settings in Kaffeine, and got it to a reasonable volume, but it is still a little lower than I would like it to be. I can't get the volume to raise to a comfortable listening level with Mplayer. I tried to use alsamixer to raise volume, and that had no effect either. This isn't specifically an Alsa problem, the volume was low with pulseaudio as well when I tried to play dvd's or listen to some podcasts on the internet. Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong and how I can get the volume higher on the audio output? 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] PulseAudio and opensuse 11.2
by Teruel de Campo MD 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

Q: anybody using pulseaudio? any problems? I was using pulseaudio under opensuse 11.1 and I was very satisfied, opensuse 11.2 does not use pulseaudio as default. I'm wondering if there are additional or different problems with opensuse 11.2 and pulse audio or it is just because some users had problems? I have all the package installed with the exception of pavucontrol which I have just added so, should I set it as default? I appreciate your feedback. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Accessing webyast? [was: Re: [opensuse] Please give more information in answers...]
by Greg Freemyer 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, James D. Parra <jamesp(a)musicreports.com> wrote: > > The web interface is also useful; > > http://localhost:631/admin That reminds me I thought the webyast interface was supposedly to be previewed in OS 11.2. I just tried to install the 2 core packages and they aren't in the repos. Am I remembering wrong? Or is there a different way to install them? # zypper in yast2-webservice Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'yast2-webservice' not found. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. # zypper in yast2-webclient Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'yast2-webclient' not found. Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] selective video and audio capture under OpenSuSE
by Boris Epstein 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Hello listmates, I am just wondering if anybody has had any experience doing selective capture off a video card. I have thus far only used utilities like xawtv and tvtime but these seem to only work locally on the machine that's got the capture card and I would like to just capture things from any other machine by connecting remotely to the card-equipped machine. Obviously something with a command-line interface would be most useful. Any thoughts? 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] oowriter issue?
by Greg Freemyer 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

All, I have a "word" doc that I can open and edit via a windows install of oowriter 3.0.0. I last saved the doc from that environment. But from OS 11.2 with OpenOffice_org-writer-3.1.1.4-1.1.4.x86_64 installed, it opens as garbage. Are there some known major issues with 3.1.1.4? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Google Chrome - Default Browser?
by Stephen P. Molnar 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Sorry for the repost, but I am totally flummoxed. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Google Chrome - Default Browser? Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:45:16 -0800 From: John Andersen <jsamyth(a)gmail.com> To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org On Friday 18 December 2009 06:16:58 pm Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: > On 12/18/2009 08:48 PM, Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > On Friday December 18 2009, John Andersen wrote: > >> Should Opensuse consider making Google Chrome the default browser for > >> KDE? > >> > >> Its faster than Firefox, and seems at least as capable as Kong. > >> > >> Drawbacks? Would Google allow it? Would it fit? > >> > >> Opinions? Flames? > > > > I'm using it, but for exactly one thing: Google Wave. > > > > As far as I can tell, the Linux port does not yet support plug-ins the > > way the Windows port does. (I've heard contradicting claims, so maybe I > > just don't know how to find or install plug-ins for Chrome). > > > > Anyway, I don't think Chrome is ready to be a replacement for Konqueror, > > especially given Konqueror's file manager capabilities, which have no > > counterpart in any browser I'm aware of. Then again, I couldn't > > possibly use Konqueror as my Web browser, I use it only for those few > > occasions when I want to use some of its unique abilities such as its > > info file viewer. > > > > I would like Chrome to be available via one of the stock openSUSE > > repositories (if it's not already... is it? If so, for which openSUSE > > versions?) > > > > I don't think Google could object (not in any way that actually impedes > > openSUSE's ability to include it), since it is an open-source project. > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > Add this to file /etc/zypp/repos.d/Google_Chrome.repo > > [Google_Chrome] > name=Google_Chrome > enabled=1 > autorefresh=0 > baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 > type=rpm-md > keeppackages=0 > > Refresh zypp and you will be able to add chrome like any other package. > You will have to adjust for your kernel flavor. > If you want Flash to work you also have to see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/HOWTO_Install_Flash For x86_64, you have to do: $ su - # cd /opt/google/chrome/ # mkdir plugins # cd plugins # ln -s /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so (The last line differs from the web page on above.) Don't forget to edit your KDE menus to add the "--enable-plugins" bit. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. -- 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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