June 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Have ancient portable scanner (Visioneer Paperport) -- seeking driver(s)
by Dan Goodman 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Always wanted to have one of those portable scanners for my road-warrior kit, but never got high enough on my needs list to fork out a couple of hundred dollars. Then, as fate would have it, I found on at a yard sale, an ancient but working Visioneer Paperport MX/VX model (says one on front, another on label on bottom). Checked a bunch of semi-obvious sites for driver and/or HW compatibility. Seems the last known driver for this was made for Win98, and never one for Linux. But I'd like to try fooling around with Wine and a driver to see if I could get this working. Problem is, I have no idea where to find one of the ancient Windoze drivers. Does anyone happen to have one laying around somewhere in an archive, or whatever? And does anyone have any good links to setting up various HW on Linux which might have only a Windows driver published? TIA. Dan Goodman Systems Engineer PS Yes I know I could easily spend more time than what it would cost to buy a new one, but (a) I like the lightweight form factor of this unit; and (b) I would like to get some experience trying to solve the problem of running a device under Linux using a Windows driver, if that is possible. Now, if you want to DONATE a more modern portable scanner, that's a different story... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] Problem with VirutalBox
by Chuck Payne 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Guys, I am using AD to log into my linux box. I want to use VirtualBox, but I can't see to add my account to the group. How can I add my account to the group? -- ---------------------------------------- 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

2 2

[opensuse] ssh tunnelling for firefox
by jdd 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hello :-) I try using a tunnelling from openSUSE 11.1 to an online server with the syntax below with firefox: $ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server and proxy localhost 9999 in firefox google seems to say there is nothing more to do, but FF keep saying the proxy don't accept the connection I tried this with a 10.2 server (old, I know, to be replaced by the next) and ubuntu server with the same result. of course the connection terminal to the server opens, I give the pass, but FF still don't works any idea? thanks 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

3 3

[opensuse] KDE4 counterpart for KitchenSync?
by Malte Gell 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi there, is it true that KitchenSync is a KDE 3.x application? Is there a KDE4 counterpart? What uses KDE4 as a frontend for opensync? Thanx Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1