March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: fdisk calculations
by jdd 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Steffen Winterfeldt a écrit : > 2012217344/512/46/47 = 1817.813... > > 2012217344 is the disk size. And that's independent of the 'geometry'. why should it be? the geometry size is the only available and OS independant. In fact this number gives 1919 mebibytes (1919*2^20=2012217344) isn't 1919 prime? I wonder how all this is built. Where are used the 900.096 bytes left? is the 2012217344 including extra bytes in sectors for sync/alignment and whatsoever the drive need? but we are here on flash drive, not magnetic, so what? 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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[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] OS 11.1 - tv card issue MSI TV Anywhere]
by Michaël Martens 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

so basically I have to wait until there is a driver or buy another tv card? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] OS 11.1 - tv card issue MSI TV Anywhere Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:09:42 +0100 From: Per Jessen <per(a)opensuse.org> Organisation: Per Jessens personal news-server To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org References: <49BA51B5.8060104(a)michaelmartens.be> Michaël Martens wrote: > Hi Per, no problem although I have no idea what all those numbers > mean: > > Output of lspci -n: Hi Michael the numbers are manufacturer and chip identifiers - your card is 1131:7134 which means Philips and the SAA7134 - so the driver is fine. >From your lspci -v output, we see: Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 8803 When looking through saa7134-cards.c, I don't see that card listed - I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty certain the subdevice id is 8803, and I don't see that. My guess is you need a newer kernel - I checked 2.6.28.7, but didn't see the card there either. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.13/2000 - Release Date: 03/13/09 18:00:00

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[opensuse] Re: fdisk calculations
by jdd 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Greg Freemyer a écrit : > Given your comment above and the email I just posted 5 minutes ago > about the new 4K alignment issues we will be seeing within the year, all this is very interesting, thanks. I use fdisk mostly because it's a "do all" thing. As far as I remember the usb key partitionning is the factory one (I don't remember changing this one) and not any partitionner accept to load such device. I evne happen frequently to use loop mounted files to experiment and only fdisk can work with these files. 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] Inkscape
by Lívio Cipriano 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi all, I'm using openSuSE 11 and I've installed Inkscape from the standard repositories. It takes several minutes to load and that happens on several Linux boxes (all with openSuSe 11) that I've . Any ideas why this happens? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano P.S. - I had the same problem with Acrobat Reader so I installed the rpm from Adobe and the problem disappeared. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Acer Aspire One D150 ( 10'' inches netbook )
by r.trev＠fastwebmail.it 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Anyone with the Acer Aspire One D150 netbook managed to work hardware default ? Loud speakers Sound doesn't works but if I connect headphones, them does works. Wifi not even, card-reader not yet tested. Anyone can help or point me to some resorce ( searched with google but nothing ) ? -- 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 still not ready for consumers...
by Mukul Singh 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, Just thought I would let you know my experience of installing Opensuse on my new laptop... Installed Opensuse 11.1 (x86 32 bit) with KDE 4.1 and then updated to KDE 4.2 Factory via one click install. The fact that KDE 4.1 is not usable is a separate issue in itself. As my laptop has a NVIDIA 9200 M card, I thought that installing the NVIDIA drivers "easy way", as indicated on opensuse website should be enough. Did that, but no luck. Anyway, I managed to do it via the "hard way". The drivers were installed successfully and things were looking up. The current problems on my system are : 1. Every time I boot my machine, the sound does not work unless I do alsasound restart. 2. Kpowersave does not display the battery status properly. -1% charged is what I get all the time. It also does not recognise whether the system is running on a battery or on mains. 3. The plasma widgets misbehave every now and then, but I can live with that. Regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] About the authority of the NFS share
by Kalvin Weng 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi Dear All I use the auto.master,auto.direct...to mount some remote folder. I am a little bit muddle that how I can set up the permission of each mounted folder RW or R Regards Kalvin Weng AT&S (China) Co.,Ltd Tel.: +86 21 24080509 Email: k.weng(a)cn.ats.net This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] lirc daemon fails to start
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Perhaps I am not understanding something but I am having troubles getting the lirc daemon to start in SuSE11.1 I have the lirc module installed and I have the lircd.conf configuration file installed in /etc as I have been instructed. (I am using the Hauppauge 350PVR IR card and I understand that all the necessary driver support is now automatically included within the kernel) When I attempt to start the lirc daemon via the YaST System Services (Runlevel) manager I get an error message saying "start returned 6 (program is not configured)" which after looking at the script file, that starts the lirc daemon, this seems to be a somewhat generic and misleading error message. Starting the lirc daemon from a console - "rclirc start" gives a bit more info saying "Error no device found" Looking for /dev/lirc or even /dev/input/ir indeed shows there is no such device(s) being defined. So I am at my limits in understanding what is happening? Can someone tell me what needs to be done to at least get the devices for lirc created? I have googled, read the documentation at LIRC's website (not that I comprehend all of it) and am not finding any answers other than it appears others are having similar difficulties... Many thanks in advance... Marc... -- 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] what happened to screensavers?
by Randall R Schulz 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

On Sunday February 15 2009, Marc Chamberlin wrote: > Sometimes I feel like it is just one $%@(! breakage after another in > Linux! I have not done anything other than ordinary updates, as they > come in, and now this time one of my systems no longer has any screen > savers showing in the list of the KDE -> Personal Settings -> Screen > Saver. I noted it when the screen saver failed to run and so went in > to see what the problem was.... The Setup and Test buttons are grayed > out/inoperative and no screen savers are listed. SO WHAT HAPPENED? > > Did a reinstall of all packages related to screen savers, and now I > see that the screen savers are again running (randomly as I normally > select) BUT still no list of screen savers is being shown in the KDE > configuration tool. This symptom is precisely what happened to me twice when I installed some Gnome packages (I, too, use KDE 3.5). The first time I wanted the Gnome control panel (or whatever it's called) the second time I wanted Yelp (the Gnome help viewer). Both times I lost the list of screen savers in the KDE configuration. Both times I had made it a point to capture a screen snapshot of the list of automatic package changes tied to the one Gnome package I wanted to add and that I could use that to precisely back out the problematic packages. That, fortunately, did restore my screen saver list. I guess we can infer that the intersection of those two sets of packages contains the problematic package(s). You can get those images here: <http://208.201.233.232/~rschulz/package-additions.zip> > Am running KDE3.5 under SuSE11.1... Likewise. > Marc.. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VNC Colors
by Chuck Payne 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Guys, I got a really strange issue with VNC in 11.1. When I connect to my server using any vnc client, it like I am on a bad acid trip. The colours are all over the place. I can't click any where with out an explsion of colours. Is there a setting with X11 that I can ton down the colors? I have tried everything on the client system. I am using Krfb and vnc that build into X/gdm. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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