September 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Can't Be -- Little Green Icon of Ardvark's Butt?
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Listmates, Is it just me, or does it look like the new yast icon in kde4 control center (Advanced -> System area) was drawn backwards. This is a joke -- right? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Sphere or Cylinder effect working for anyone with Pre2400 Series ATI card -- Anyone?
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Listmates, I have several kde4 boxes with nvidia cards and several with ATI cards (older but fast as hell) The sphere and cylinder desktop effect work fine on all the boxes with nvidia cards but with (none) of the boxes with the ATI cards. Exact same kde4 setups (factory kde + 11.0 + xorg 7.3)(1 on Arch Linux w/xorg 7.4) ATI cards are 1600XT, 800XT PE and 1200 eXpress. Same results on both distros and with the radeon, radeonhd and fglrx driver. What's the trick if you have it going?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] RFC regarding: bottom posting is, generally, inhumane;
by Rajko M. 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Can we finish last incarnation of techno religious discussion with simple agreement: 1) If message is in any way hard to read for you, or you can't stand looking at it, then there is a delete button that will do the job. 2) If you don't like someone then do plonk without public notification. Reasons: 1) This list is for basic technical help. 2) Imagine 1500 subscribers of this list posting just 1 or 2 emails about hundreds of their personal preferences it will make enough reading for a year without asking or answering questions about openSUSE. 3) The most important one is waster time. The general numbers are here: http://lists.opensuse.org/stats/opensuse/opensuse.html Search results on http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/ for: +top +post* 3044 +bottom +post* 1348 +top +bottom +post* 600 plonk 170 +mail +netiquette 597 That is: +3044 mentioned top post* +1348 mentioned bottom post* -600 mentioned both in the same email, so it should be counted only once =3792 posts For publishing 3792 posts and 10 minutes per post for writing and sending is 37920 minutes = 632 hours = 26 days 8 hours = 78 working days each 8 hours. The actual number is much higher. For deleting/marking read it is 3792 posts * 1400 subscribers * 5 seconds for action gives 28,440,000 seconds, or 329 days, or 987 work days. Can't be that 1065 work days used for something else? -- Regards, Rajko -- 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: the fundamental SuSE package management tools?
by Joachim Schrod 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 03:50:31 am Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> again, as a relative suse newbie, i'm wondering what people consider >> the fundamental package management tools in opensuse/SLES/SLED. >> > > Robert, as everyone has stated rpm, zypper and yast. What I would add is, do > yourself a favor and learn zypper from the command line. It is much more > flexible than the yast gui interface and a ...whole lot faster when you know > what you want to do. > > zypper help And take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kernel 2.6.31: boot.log says Cannot find map file
by Malte Gell 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi there, I've just build a 2.6.31. I just found a message in boot.log: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.31-44-pae-k7 Cannot find map file. No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. I'm surprised, because the map file _is_ there, modules got loaded and are active, checked with lsmod. So, what could be the cause for this message? By the way, booting with kernel 2.6.31 is much more verbose, isn't it ;-) Regards Malte -- 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] Re: zypper: How to dist-upgrade specific packages?
by Joachim Schrod 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Michael S. Dunsavage writes: Hi, thanks for your answer. > > I discovered that for vendor changes, zypper install will do what I > > want. > > > > It won't do architecture changes (i686->i586), though. Any idea how > > to allow that? > > Try zypper up <package> This will ask interactive questions, which is tedious to answer for dozens of questions on several systems. As mentioned in my first email in this thread, I'm looking for a way to install them without the manual interaction required for each and every package. Something like --ignore-arch-change or --take-first-solution to direct the resolver at choosing the right decision, which is anyhow always the first that it presents. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OT hardware info ??
by ka1ifq 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Somebody posted a command to get bios info from a machine ( dmidecode -s bios-version && dmidecode t11 ). I thought it would be interesting to see what my machine would give me. What I got differs from what is on the mfg page and I now wonder which is correct? The computer is a Dell C521, mfg says max of 4g ram in 4 slots, max ram / slot 1G. The output from the above command from bios states max 16g ram in 4 slots, max ram / slot 4g. ******************************************* partial output ******************************************* Memory Controller Information Error Detecting Method: 64-bit ECC Error Correcting Capabilities: None Supported Interleave: One-way Interleave Current Interleave: One-way Interleave Maximum Memory Module Size: 4096 MB Maximum Total Memory Size: 16384 MB Supported Speeds: 70 ns 60 ns 50 ns Supported Memory Types: Standard DIMM Memory Module Voltage: 2.9 V Associated Memory Slots: 4 0x000A 0x000B 0x000C 0x000D Enabled Error Correcting Capabilities: None -- 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] 11.0 Opera Java Links Broken??
by Ulf Sassenberg 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

On 27/09/09 17:31, David C. Rankin wrote: >List, >After Anders posted the links to the opera generic rpm, I thought I >would >give it a try. To my AMAZEMENT Java/Javascript worked like a charm in the >opera.com package, but was broken completely in the openSuSE update package. >The opera.com package was: >opera-10.00.gcc4.qt4.x86_64.rpm >The openSuSE Update package was: >opera-10.00-6.1.x86_64.rpm >Investigating further, I checked the java settings in the opera.com >package >and the java path for Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> Java >Options was: >/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64 >Curious, I reinstalled the openSuSE package and check the same Java >Option >and it was the SAME!! >What Gives?? Why does java in the opera.com package work and the >opensuse >package fail?? >-- Not necessarily. I believe Opera is looking for libjvm.so in /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre/lib/amd64 but it is instead in the sub directory /server. A simple link will make java function properly. Perhaps this has been corrected in the genuine version. /Ulf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde4 - can widgets be "on top" of other windows (like clock, etc..)
by David C. Rankin 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Listmates, In kde4 is there a way that widgets can be set to show on top of other windows when you click them? I wouldn't want them "always on top", but when I can just see the corner of the analog clock widget or the forecast, I would like to click them and have them come to the top like other windows. Doable? [[ $ANS == yes ]] && how? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] difference between kernel-default & kernel-trace?
by Linda Walsh 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

What is the effect of using the trace kernel? I was always under the impression that it would run more slowly because it had trace functions throughout, but I read recently, that it's for also for use in RT applications where timing is key and is called trace because it's used for benchmarking? What type of things does one lose with using that kernel if it is supposedly 'faster'? Or is it? Thanks, -linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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