March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: fdisk calculations
by jdd 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Greg Freemyer a écrit : > I think it is great you are working on that howto. I consider myself > very knowledgeable about partitioning and I've learned a few things > about new concerns in just the last month or two. me too :-) > 1) Under software tools, I would like to see gpart listed and then a > link to later in the doc where you already explain how it is used. of course, I ean to speak of every tool. That's not easy. For example, most tools don't even try to partition loop mounted files when this is a very interesting use (but may be not necessary with partitions), when virtualization is so growing > > 2) As I assume you already realize, you need to add a section on > partition alignment. I even wonder if I shouldn't spread this HOWTO in several full HOWTOs in place of only chapters. In fact as I see now, there is room for a basic partition HOWTO, assuming the tools do the smart things for the user (usually they do the alignment work themselve) - most users wont even try to read detailed doc as is needed (I just read the details barriers page quoted by Wikipedia, very interesting :-) and an "advanced" HOWTO for the experts > Vista has changed the default to use 1 MiB offset... the recommandation to always let Windows partition it's part of the disk and only thereafter do the Linux part may be still valuable :-) > 2.1) Just yesterday I saw a post that some SSDs monitor the partition > table contents and realign themselves internally to make the alignment > work. (That is just plain crazy to me, but it is what it is.) Worthy > of a comment in the HowTo assuming it is true. USB drives are more and more common - say externally connected drives, to be more general (including SATA and IEEE1394). Booting external drives is very challenging, so is the firmware of basic usb keys (I still wonder how fidsk knows the full size of the usb key quoted in my first post) > table for drives (logical or physical) that exceed 2TB. future system will have to be seen > 4) No reference to /proc/partitions. (Is there an equivalent in /sys ?) some comments are on the definition document > > 5) Is a section about future ideas appropriate? absolutely. jdd NB: what is the openSUSE partition tool? is it special or gpart version? fidsk is rewritten now with parted libraries (seems to be different than the util-linux used in openSUSE) -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- 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 consolidate tasks in the task bar?
by Josef Wolf 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, Earlier KDE versions had the possibility to consolidate multiple tasks of the same type in the task bar under one common icon. For example, all emacs would have one icon. When clicked on it, a pupup-menu would come out, listing all the tasks of this type. I can not find how to enable this in kde4 on 11.1. Any hints? -- 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 and Tasks
by Kai Ponte 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I had to laugh. I was working just now and noticed the amount of tasks that I had running. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090317_desktop.jpg Just try this in Wintendo! -- kai www.perfectreign.com | www.ecmplace.com www.twitter.com/PerfectReign -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Squid Log Analyzer Suggestion Please
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi! Anyone can suggest me good squid log analyzer? There are too many of them, if you are using something, please share your impressions. Thanks in advance -- 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] Kmix & Konq problems after upgrade
by ka1ifq 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:32:47 peter nikolic wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2009, ka1ifq wrote: > > On Monday 16 March 2009 11:23:35 Sven Burmeister wrote: > > > Either I misunderstood you or "[...] having some trouble launching > > > applications to look at email attachments. It was recomended that I > > > update my Kmail which involved updating Kde (Version 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) > > > "release 103")." tells me that you updated kmail to version 4.2.1 and > > > hence you added the repo yourself. > > > > > > Sven > > > > I wanted to update Kmail, I figured it would update Kde also to the > > latest Kde 4.1 not 4.2 . I did not add the 4.2 repository, nor did I > > intend on adding it or moving to 4.2. I am not sure what happened but I > > will start again from scratch with 11.0. > > > > Mike. > > You are not the only one to have had problems with getting stuff you dont > want .. i wanted KDE 4.2 and wound up with 4.3 alpha stuff that caused > total mayhem on the machine wound up having to do a complete install from > the ground up because no amount of package uninstalls solved the problems. > > There is definately somethink a bit cranked in the repo's at times and it > aint not fun > > Pete . > -- Thanks Pete, I guess I am not the only one, I guess it somehow added a repository based on what it found and not what I asked for. I am in the process of doing another complete install in another partition and hopefully get back to where I was. Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hal not working
by Bob S 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello SuSE people, No matter what I have tried I cannot ge hal to work in 11.1 KDE4.2.1 It sees nothing. Not my DVD or CD drives, my card reader, and most of all my usb backup hard drive. They can be mounted manually. Supposedly there was a bug in hal that supposedly was fixed. Not so, for me anyway. Did an upgrade tonight. This is the newest version: bob@Easystreet:/> rpm -q hal hal-0.5.12-10.13.1 Any ideas, suggestions? Bob 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] Re: ooo with pdf import
by jdd 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Greg Freemyer a écrit : > Never mind, it came to life after a while. > > Clumsy to edit, but I got the job done. I guess the very nature of > how a pdf works makes it clumsy. oh! well! I didn't even know it was possible to edit a pdf with ooo!! very good news, thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Boot failure on Acer Laptop
by Mike McMullin 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

System == Acer Spire 5102WLMI AMD64 dual core OS == openSuSE 11.1 Kernel == 2.6.27.7-9-pae.i686 Problem: intermittent failure if boot process. The last line on the screen is: ACPI processor limited to max C-state 1 I've seen this several times lately, and I'm wondering what is causing the the boot to stop at this point and what can be done to remedy the situation. -- 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] Process priority control
by Carlos E. R. 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-03-15 at 05:03 -0400, Osamalamadingdong wrote: Please, remember to post to the list, not in private. ... >> As kcryptd is not a child process of par2, it does not inherit its >> niceness value, I understand - but it is a real nuisance. >> >> Can this situation be changed? > > renice it to 19. Yes, I can do that by hand, but my question is more general: could not the kcryptd process inherit the niceness of the calling process? And that hack requires being root. Ie, what's the use of having a user process running "very nice", if the system processes it calls run at high priority? The purpose of "nice" is defeated. Consider that a user could slow down an important machine by running a batch of nice processes when more important tasks are running normally. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm9Db0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UwEACfZjMZ72udA3L5mEU9SJDShLFb Ll0An3NvzcM4EpNKis0aGk65tbSdttsg =5BEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Time Incorrect in New Installed opensuse 11.1
by vsu 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

I have a new installed opensuse 11.1, and when I boot my opensuse, the time displays the wrong time. and I have to correct it. I really dunnt want to see my days past that fast... I have the same problem in brand new installed opensuse 11.0, and I can find "timezone" update in yast, and I can make it work correctly by update. But I still can not find a solution to the opensuse 11.1, nothing in repos' update. Can anybody help ? Thankyou! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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