February 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] Screen Resolution
by Mark Misulich 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi, here is a link to a snapshot I took of the way fonts are displayed on my screen. I am a little disappointed with it because as I look at the screenshot it looks better than what I see on my desktop. The fonts on my desktop are more chopped up, but I hope it will give you an idea of what I am trying to fix. If it doesn't work to convey that idea, let me know and I will try something else. This link shows the desktop at native resolution (1366X768, VGA) http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/653/snapshot1lw.png Here is a screenshot showing the same view at a different resolution (1280x720). Hopefully you can pick out the improvement in font rendering quality. http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6872/snapshot2zw.png -- 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 networking file system to use for our home office?
by Zhang Weiwu 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hello. I have been using NFS for a few years for all networking file system needs and only knows how to make that work. Now we have a special problem. Usually our NFS clients who have write access also have fixed IP addresses, this time she doesn't. Looks as if to me 1. it is easy to set up NFS server on dynamic IP address (fixed FQDN) with fixed IP address clients, 2. but not possible to set up NFS server on fixed IP address with dynamic IP address (fixed FQDN) clients. In detail, the FQDN in /etc/exports are checked by 1. first comparing its IP address with client's IP address, 2. then, by comparing client's IP address' reverse lookup FQDN with what is writen in /etc/exports, the latter check kills dynamic IP address client possibility. NFS document says it is for security concern against man-in-the-middle, which I don't mind much, as we work on non-profit and open-to-public documents on the NFS share. I read if I want to have dynamic IP address client with write writes, I need to set up kerberos, whose learning curve make me feel it overkill, since we only have a small home office with a single client (my wife) and I don't expect the number of users to grow. My friends told me: NFS is for corporate environment. For loose security and easy set up requirement, like in my home office, I should use Windows File Sharing service instead. Should I switch to Windows File Sharing? Does it handle UTF8 well (many files have Chinese name)? Does it handle execution bit well (as we sometimes use it)? What about special characters like column symbol and question marks as we use it in some filenames? By the way fixing my wife's IP address is not possible because she might work everywhere, starbucks for example. She is using OpenSUSE 11.0. And, real mount is preferred over gnome virtual file system which is not compatible with some of her tools. I also want to avoid unnecessary learning curve so that to concentrate on my non-IT profession, thus would choose known system (nfs) unless I have to dump it. Best 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] PATA vs. SATA: which port is device on?
by Felix Miata 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Following is output from 3 machines: hwinfo --cdrom: http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/hwinfocdrom-big31.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/hwinfocdrom-fi965.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/hwinfocdrom-gx270.txt /proc/scsi: http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/scsi-big31.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/scsi-fi965.txt http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/scsi-gx270.txt In all 3's hwinfo output, the OM device is reported to be on IDE interface, which for at least one of the three is an outright lie (AD-7200S is SATA). I didn't know all to start with, which is why the question, though I do now know from seeing these particular model numbers. Ignoring whatever information can be discovered or inferred from device model numbers or names, how can one determine whether a device is connected to a PATA port or an SATA port? Is there something from cmdline better than hwinfo or /proc/scsi to find this out? Would use of a PATA to SATA or vice versa converter produce an erroneous report? -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] Kommander
by Hans Krueger 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

does anybody know when Kommander for KDE 4.4 going to be available -- Hans Krueger hanskrueger007(a)roadrunner.com registered Linux user 289023 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can someone tell me what this is all about?
by Marc Chamberlin 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

I am running SuSE11.2 x86-64 and every so often I get the following spattered across all of my shells along with a pop up message. Doesn't seem to correlate with what I am doing at the moment, but I could be wrong on that... Last time I just did an ls of a dir that I had auto mounted... but it has occurred when I am doing other things as well... What is it and what do I do about it? Thanks.. Marc Chamberlin Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965309] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965332] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965345] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index1/shared_cpu_map Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965673] Stack: Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965725] Call Trace: Message from syslogd@bigbang at Feb 24 16:56:37 ... kernel:[ 4510.965861] Code: 50 30 4c 8b 0a 31 d2 48 85 f6 74 04 48 8b 56 40 48 05 88 02 00 00 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 58 be 6e 81 48 89 04 24 31 c0 e8 7a f8 3e 00 <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 0b eb fe e8 3b 79 f0 ff 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox, lost passwords
by Mike 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

I upgraded to3.6 a few days ago and everything seemed OK Today I tried out the private browsing function and now all the saved passwords are gone. Is there a way to restore it? SuSE-brand :openSUSE VERSION = 11.1 -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wow, now I'm impressed
by Pit Suetterlin 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

I just bought a new printer, a Samsung ML-2851ND. Thought "OK, let's install that thing". Just out of curiosity I watched /var/log/messages when I connected it (it has network, but I'm using USB at the moment). What do I see? Feb 24 21:27:01 snoopy udev-configure-printer: URI matches without serial number: usb://Samsung/ML-2850%20Series Feb 24 21:27:01 snoopy udev-configure-printer: No serial number URI matches so using those without Feb 24 21:27:01 snoopy udev-configure-printer: About to add queue for usb://Samsung/ML-2850%20Series Feb 24 21:27:01 snoopy udev-add-printer: add_queue: URIs=['usb://Samsung/ML-2850%20Series'] Feb 24 21:27:01 snoopy udev-add-printer: D-Bus method call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.redhat.NewPrinterNotification was not provided by any .service files Feb 24 21:27:11 snoopy udev-add-printer: PPD: Samsung/ML-2850D-Postscript.ppd.gz; Status: 0 Uh. Ok, lets see: snoopy:~% lpq ML-2850-Series is ready no entries Wow. No, WOW! I knew it's a PostScript printer and expected little work. But that was an absolute zero-conf thing. Just plug it in and print. As I said - I'm *really* impressed.... Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin(a)royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin(a)astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Nearly OT - Kopete sends unwanted messages
by Oszkó Albert 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi all, I use nearly exclusively (99+ %) Kopete as my chatting program. I have very few contacts in WLM and ICQ. Recently my contacts in WLM warned me that messages arrive to their WLM client which I did not send. These messages also contain a link. >From time to time Russian messages invite me to be their friend, but i always block them.at once. Is it possible to stop sending these spams from my WLM client - or the only way is to delete my identity and create a new one Any ideas are welcome Regards, Oszkoa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Laptop: HP Pavillion dv8t (opinions)
by Adam Tauno Williams 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

I'm looking at an HP Pavillion dv8t which I'll use exclusively to run openSUSE. Core i7 Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Intel Wireless-N Card Does anyone have any experience with this machine, or the specifications [specifically the Nvidia card, which seems very new]? <http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName…> I'm a quite experience Linux Systems Administrator, but I need something that will, at least basically, come up to speed easily so I can resume work (my former computer having suddenly died). -- 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: waiting for /dev/sda1 error during boot up
by Joachim Schrod 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

James D. Parra wrote: Hi, > I dd'd an image of Suse Studio to a hard drive and when attempting to boot > from it I get an error of; > > waiting for /dev/sda1 to appear... could not find /dev/sda1 > > The drive has only two partitions, sda1 = /, and sda2 = swap. Grub loads > fine, so the /boot dir on sda1 is being read correctly. Preceding the > above error I get an error of; > > FATAL: module ext3 not found. That most probably means that the ext3 kernel module is not in initrd, which would be very strange. You can check that by mounting the SUSE Studio image (with -o loop), and check the content of .../boot/initrd: zcat initrd | cpio -it | fgrep ext3.ko must output something like lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1-pae/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko If not, you have to update the initrd in the SUSE Studio image. If yes, I have no idea what's going on here. HTH, 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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