March 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Keeping the monitor turned on
by Marc Chamberlin 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi - This may be more appropriate to the KDE group but seems like this is a better place to ask as this may be a system level issue... Running SuSE11.2 with KDE 4.4.2 I want the ability to leave my monitor up with the display turned on indefinitely, for my media center, especially when I am playing music and running a visualization program. I have tried to go into the KDE System Settings and turned off all the power management schemes, PowerDevil etc. This is a desktop system so battery mode is not an option. Yet something is insisting on turning off the monitor after a few minutes of "inactivity" I have look elsewhere (Sax, nvidia manager etc) and cannot find anything else which might be also trying to configure a timeout on the display.. So how do I keep the display up and running? Thanks for any and all ideas offered! Marc..

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[opensuse] USB Webcam audio problem on Linux
by Marco Calistri 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Wonder if the lack of answers to my latest post (in attach) is because nobody use Philips USB Webcams with embedded microphone, or because this appears to be a know bug of Linux kernel, which is not yet resolved. How is it possible that Linux nowaday, still lacks on this kind of driver problems? Note: I said *Linux*, since I noticed exactly the same issue also on Ubuntu and Fedora. BR, -- Marco Calistri <amdturion> The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself. -- Michael Curtiz

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[opensuse] KDE 4.4: Keyboard interface: File-save panel saves prematurely
by Charles Obler 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

The standard file-save panel used by both Opera and Firefox does not give me a chance to select the subdirectory. When I put the cursor on a subdirectory and press Enter, I expect the panel to display the subdirectory contents. Instead, the panel saves the file immediately, under the directory. The panel works properly when I use the mouse and click on the subdirectory. In Opera, however, there is an additional problem: The file is saved under the name in the title of the web page, and the name I enter in the file-save panel is ignored. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] my KDE 4.4.1 upgrade experience
by Vadym Krevs 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

So yesterday I've decided to take the plunge and upgrade my openSUSE 11.2/x86_64 box from KDE 4.3.5 to KDE 4.4.1 from OBS factory desktop/community/playground repos for openSUSE 11.2. The actual upgrade process went quite smoothly (aside from some packages such as libkdecore4-32bit and libphonon4-32bit depending on missing 32-bit libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libs, but that's because earlier I had to upgrade to latest ALSA libs/KMPs trying to resolve an sound issue). First impression - KDE 4.4.1 does look much slicker than KDE 4.3.5. Sadly, that's about the only positive thing I can say about it. 1. Immediately after login, various nepomuk/aconadi/strigi/virtuso-t services tool over my machine and for 15 minutes there was no was to do anything at all due to CPU/IO usage caused by these. Lots of users complained about this in the past, and yet nothing's done to make this an on-demand activity. 2. The new konsole is simply not usable. It fails to render many fixed width fonts, is very slow to resize, etc. A quick search on kde's bugzilla reveals more than a dozen of issues reported by users of various distros including opensuse, and is not video-card specfic. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215873 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217700 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227246 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227132 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229400 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231070 Initial analysis appears to indicate that it is a QT 4.6.x bug (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7255) Personally, I find it incredible that Qt 4.6/KDE 4.4.x is released when then a key application such as konsole is simply broken. 3. The first time Konqueror started and I attempted to enter text into the search box, suddenly the search box (and all text boxes/drop downs/combox in all running KDE apps, not just konqueror!!!) became several times taller. I did try to log off, restart KDE, and log back on, and the issue came back almost instantly. Tried reinstalling each 4.4.1 rpm and verifying that all files had been installed correctly - no joy. So after all this, I went back to KDE 4.3.5, and within half an hour I had a working and stable desktop again. I really hate to saying this, but there is no way KDE 4.4.1 is viable upgrade from KDE 4.3.5. Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] recordMyDesktop loses frames
by arygroup＠gmail.com 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

I had many experiments with movie editors several days before. And now I noticed my qt-recordMyDesktop (I tried gtk-recordMyDesktop also) doesn't record all needed frames. My mouse moves are not recoded. Sound is recorded perfectly. I tired all possible configuration settings in qt-recordMyDesktop, even set it to use 50 frames per secon with no result. It seems, the frames-per-second are set to low rate somewhere else. OpenSuse 11.2 KDE 4.3.5 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] XFS, samba, and ACL attributes
by James D. Parra 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hello, What is the correct way to mount an xfs partition so ACL attributes are active? I have, /dev/sda3 / xfs default 1 1, in fstab, but the none of the ACLs attributes are visible. I thought xfs supported this natively. Should I change it to; /dev/sda3 / xfs acl,user_xattr 1 2, Many thanks in advance. James -- 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] Anyone running nvidia GeForce 7600 with proprietary drivers?
by Bob Williams 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

On Friday 05 Mar 2010 22:03:15 you wrote: > Bob Williams wrote: > > On Friday 05 Mar 2010 18:53:39 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: > >> On 03/05/2010 11:33 AM, Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 22:41:31 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> > >>>> When you go to this site, with the laptop in question, which one is > >>>> recommended? > >>>> > >>>> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us > >>> > >>> Sorry about the delay in replying, I've been away. > >>> > >>> That website (well, the UK version) recommends 195.36.08 for GeForce Go > >>> 7 series, but on the supported hardware page it omits to mention the Go > >>> 7600. > >>> > >>> Bob > >> > >> That's because the 7600 is part of the 7 series. I have an 8400 that is > >> part of the 8 series of cards. > > > > Supported Products: > > > > GeForce 7 series: > > 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7100 GS, 7800 GS, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i, > > 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i, 7650 GS, 7300 GS, 7300 GT, 7550 LE, 7800 SLI, > > 7900 GT/GTO, 7300 LE, 7800 GTX, 7950 GX2, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 > > / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7900 GTX, 7900 GS, 7950 > > GT, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7350 LE, 7600 LE, 7600 GT, 7500 LE, > > 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7600 GS > > > > GeForce Go 7 series: > > Go 7950 GTX, Go 7900 GS, Go 7900 GTX, Go 7800 GTX > > > > Why omit the _Go_ 7600 from this list? > > > > > > ... because it's not supported? That's my experience :( > > The 7600 uses the G02 driver. > The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver. > > I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. > Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01. > Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- 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] Akonadi runs wild
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:37 +0100 Will Stephenson <wstephenson(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 16:52:42 constant(a)indo.net.id wrote: > > Did what you proposed.Advance KDE Resourc. Contacts The >>Akonadi > > address book is disabled now.Nepomuk Semantic Desktop is > > Otherwise let me have a look at the logs, and thanks for persevering > with kmail while we troubleshoot this - this ensures we will have a > good kmail experience when 11.3 comes out. > > BTW if it does all get too much for you, you can switch back to KDE > 4.3.5 kmail etc with "zypper rm akonadi-runtime" - the relevant > kdepim packages only will be downgraded, keeping the 4.4.1 desktop. > Will Kmail is one of my favorites and I am for the moment not planning to abandon it ;) . A switch back is not a question now as I can temporary handle my email with Crawl. Worked on the Akonadi server and saved the output of akonadictl start in a file which I attach. Hope that this kind of information helps. Thanks for the assistance.

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Re: [opensuse] Amarok and projectM visualization Solved!??
by Marc Chamberlin 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Amarok and projectM visualization Solved!?? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:01:04 -0700 From: Marc Chamberlin <marc(a)marcchamberlin.com> Reply-To: marc(a)marcchamberlin.com To: Matthias Bach <marix(a)marix.org>, opensuse <opensuse(a)opensuse.org> On 3/31/2010 7:20 AM, Matthias Bach wrote: > Hi! > > Am 21.03.2010 um 02:54 schrieb Marc Chamberlin: > > >>> home:theMarix:KDE:Community is the identifier of someone's personal OBS >>> project, which produces at least one repository (for different openSUSE >>> versions, etc). If you search for projectM at software.opensuse.org/search >>> you will get search hits from every repository that includes a *projectM* >>> package. >>> >>> I guess you want this repo: >>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/theMarix:/KDE:/Community/op… >>> >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> >> Thanks Will, Tejas for your help, but I am still not out of the woods yet. I found and installed the projectM-pulseaudio package. I can now bring up the projectM visualization but it is clearly not responding to any sound output from Amarok yet. It seems to generate patterns ok but not in sync to either volume or freq as I would expect. So something is still missing... >> > That package is from my repository in which I experiment with new packages that IMO would make sense in Contrib. While the build is proper I never got projectM working correctly in terms of properly responding to pulseaudio, which is pretty much the reason why this package is still stuck in my personal repo and not pushed to Contrib itself. (This problem is not packaging-related, I also experimented with non-packaged builds from the tarballs) > > If anybody has any Idea on how to get this application running properly I'd be happy. :) > > Regards, > Matthias Thanks Matthias for your reply, but I don't think you replied to the mail list as your probably intended.. (I will reply to both you and it) I cannot say for certain what has fixed projectM for me, I had set this aside for now and wandered off to solve other problems (like getting mythTV, lirc and other media components up and running) During the course of doing all this I did note that when I installed one of the lirc packages, it forced a new update of the kernel for me, so perhaps that had something to do with the fix.. Anywise, as an inspiration, I just now decided to launch projectM-pulseaudio from a command line instead of using the KDE/SuSE menu, just to see if there would be any clues in the output. And I will be darned if the thing simply started working! So like I said, I have tried a lot of paths to get this and other components working and cannot say for certain what fixed it. If you want to compare your system to mine, I will be glad to help. Just send me commands that you want me to execute and I will post the results... Really is nice to have my old friend back!!! Love the visualizations! Thanks whoever fixed it! Marc.. -- Marc Chamberlin www.marcchamberlin.com A man said unto the universe - "Sir I Exist!" "However" replied the universe "I do not see where that creates in me a sense of an obligation" S Crane.

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[opensuse] Decision in the SCO Group vs. Novell Jury trial
by James Knott 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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