March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Studio.suse.com
by Greg Freemyer 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Very cool. We just created a custom boot CD with some of the unique software we need. We've talked about doing it for a couple years and never took the time to dive in and do it. One surprise was that "strings" was not part of our first build. We went back into to studio to find it and could not find a way to search for a package by "provides strings". Easy enough to do that via yast and figure out we needed binutils, but it was the only hickup we had so I have to complain about something. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1 not seeing USB devices
by Bob S 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hello SuSE people. Still trying out 11.1 with KDE4.2.1. KDE is looking better with every upgrade. However, 11.1 is not seeing any of my USB devces. (scanner. plug in portable hard drive, card reader etc) Don't get that little pop-up about a device being seen. Haven't done a lot of intensive investigation yet and thought the SuSE people could provide a simple answer. 11.1 is also not seeing my CDRW or my DVDRW devices. I can see it in sysinfo but I can't open it. Just thought I would ask before I go into my trouble- shooting mode, (again) Bob S BTW, what is with the My Computer (sysinfo) thing that keeps jumping to the top while you are trying to read what is there. Very annoying. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Gourmet.
by Fred A. Miller 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

The Gourmet package used to be available for SUSE....10 or 10.2 was the last release from a repository...I think. Anyway, I've tried to get it to compile and install since 11.0 with no success. Tom Hinkle IS available to someone if they want to take this project on so we'd once again have it for openSUSE. Below is his response to me. I hope someone who is somewhat of a code jokey will take this on and get it done! Thanks, Fred ______________ Sure. Well, I can help with individual errors if you try again from source. I'm not the person to do the SUSE packaging though -- I presume that SUSE has a way to request packages though -- you might see if you can't convince someone to package it. I'm certainly happy to support them in their efforts. Thomas_Hinkle(a)alumni.brown.edu -- "The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people." ~ Alan Keyes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FW: Intel(R) PRO/1000 CT Network Controller Not Recognized, Suse 11.1
by Konstantinos 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

First I must point out that I'm new to Linux. I installed Suse 11.1 but I have no internet. Probably there are no drivers for "Intel(R) PRO/1000 CT Network Controller" Can I "create" them through the terminal? The controller is onboard an MSI 865 PE Neo2. I thank you in advance. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3917 (20090307) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] what happened to screensavers?
by Marc Chamberlin 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

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. Am running KDE3.5 under SuSE11.1... Marc.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Does anyone know about disk master password
by Dave Plater 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, I have a seagate drive which has somehow become locked in maximum security mode, does anyone have any idea how to reset the master password. There's a program on the ultimate boot cd to do this but it requires the master password. I've looked in seagate site and forums and all I have come up with is the drive is a brick when this happens. Googling only brings up a master password for xbox which doesn't work. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Centralized authentication ldap nis nis+
by Cody Nelson 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

What is the preferred method to centralized authentication in linux? 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] Add Widgets
by Teruel de Campo MD 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

kde 4 opensuse 11.1 Problem: how do I remove plasmoids from the <add widget> list? Here is the list kept? -=terrry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Sharing the internet connection from one computer to another
by Bogdan Cristea 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Is there a way to share the internet connection, using an USB modem connected to a computer, to another computer connected with the first one through Ethernet ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] oss 11.0 to 11.1 upgrade problem
by Moby 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

In trying to upgrade a machine from oss 11.0 to 11.1, yast installer is unable to find any partitions to upgrade. The machine has two IDE disks broken into three partitions each. Here is the disk layout: /dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1 = /dev/md0 = /boot /dev/sda2 + /dev/sdb2 = /dev/md1 = swap /dev/sda3 + /dev/sdb3 = /dev/mapper/system/system-lv = / During upgrade, either using the bootable DVD or the mini-network boot CD and pointing it to an in-house repo, the system does not see any partitions to upgrade. Going to console 9 at that point and trying mdadm --detail /dev/md0 complains about md0 not being active. In googling and oogling this on the Net, I see that oss 11.1 was (still is?) seriously handicapped in it's boot time handling of lvm, software raid bits and pieces. Apparently some issues have been resolved by various updates (such as the perl-Bootloader update perhaps etc). If the issue I am seeing has been fixed, does anyone know how to utilize the fix during install time? Is there a way to somehow slipstream the fixes and create new install media? I had another machine with a similar setup that upgraded fine (well, "fine" - that machine failed to boot after the upgrade due to known bugs in oss 11.1 with root on raid + lvm - I got around that by making a boot cd and the machine works fine). This particular machine will not even upgrade to 11.1 for me to fiddle with any of the fixes available for 11.1. The only difference between the machines is that the one that upgraded has two SATA drives and this one has two IDE drives - but that ~should~ not make a difference. I would appreciate anyone's insight into this issue . Thanks in advance for any help. -- --Moby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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