April 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Help! X - I plugged in an external monitor - now pager is twice as big & logout is on right side of screen??
by David C. Rankin 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Guys, I plugged in an external monitor while in kde. The monitor never really got configured so I removed it. When restarting the pager in the taskbar is twice as big as it should be horizontally, and when I click logout, the logout dialog is 1/2 visible on the far right of my screen. Something like extend monitor on 2nd display must be set, but where in the hell is it? No only does it affect kde, but when I log into gnome, the wallpaper is so stretched, I only see the left side of it. What did it do and how do I fix it?? -- 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] Setting links to Apps
by Mark Misulich 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi, I am writing to ask how to set up some links in Firefox to start Mplayer when I click on a link to an audio stream. They used to be set when setting up multimedia with the opensuse-community one click using mplayerplugin. But something has happened in the intervening time and now the mplayerplugin is no longer linked to start in firefox when I click on a hyperlink. I have been copying the url of the stream and pasting it in mplayer, but I decided that I should get the helper application working again to automatically start mplayer when I click on a link. But my attempts aren't working, so I need some help. I am using the following procedure to set a preference for mms protocol in firefox, but it isn't working. 1.Enter about:config in the address bar. 2. Right click and select New>Boolean 3. Enter "network.protocol-hanler.external.mms" without the quotes, then click ok. 4. Select "true" for the value, click ok. 5. Right click again, select New>string 6. Enter "network.protocol-handler.app.mms" click ok. 7. Find "network.protocol-handler.app.mms" in the list and right click on it. 8. Select New>String 9. In the box type: "usr/bin/mplayer I think that the problem is that the string for starting mplayer is wrong. When I go to /usr/bin/mplayer in konqueror and click on the executable file icon (gear) in /usr/bin/mplayer to start mplayer, nothing happens. I can't find another executable file to start mplayer, so I am not sure how to procede. I am using Opensuse 11.1 and kde 3.5. Thanks for your help in advance, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper ps, a bug or?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

After entering "sudo zypper dup" I am asked for the root password before anything goes. When I use "sudo zypper ps" in order to see eventuell dead commands I have to supply my password again. So far as expected. But when I enter "sudo zypper dup" right after running "sudo zypper ps" I am not required to enter my password. A bug? -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) "release 245" 18:12pm up 19:17, 3 users, load average: 2.02, 1.85, 1.64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde3 - all control panel apps are still gone
by David C. Rankin 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Will, Dotan, All, On my 11.0 kde3 install, all control panel apps disappeared a few weeks ago and haven't returned. I have made a number of attempts to find out why and tried all the suggestions from the last thread, but still no joy. Here is what I see when I open kcontrol or type 'kcmshell --list': (54k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/kde3/controlPanelEmpty.jpg What logs can I look at, what package can I check or what test can I run to find out what's happening and hopefully make the little guys jump back into kcontrol? -- 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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Re: [opensuse] eth* connection status via cli
by James D. Parra 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Try the more modern version "ip addr": # ip addr show dev eth0 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:50:8b:95:6e:4e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.2.128/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::250:8bff:fe95:6e4e/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Notice the "LOWER_UP" flag. Otherwise, I'd suggest "ethtool": # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes ~~~~~~~ Thank you, Per Jessen, and others, for your suggestions. The link connection status is shown with 'ethtool', however that tool is not part of the Rescue session on the install DVD. The command 'ip addr show' has 'state DOWN' even with the nics cabled and connected to the network. Definitely getting closer to a solution. Many thanks again for all the enlightening suggestions. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Converting a VHS tape with Macrovision (no longer available) to DVD
by Duaine Hechler 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

I have several VHS tapes with Macrovision that are *no longer available* and want to convert them to DVD. I bought a Sony all-in-one converter copier but chocks on the Macrovision. It there a way to do this ? VLC ? MythTV ? Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Slow startup of network interface
by Marc Chamberlin 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

I have a system acting as a gateway for my SOHO network, running openSuSE11.2 x86_64 which as two different NICs installed. eth0 is my external network interface and eth1 is my internal network interface. Both are configured to initialize during boot up and I use the traditional ifup/ifdown method of controlling my network. eth0 will set up just fine during boot up and be fully functional by the time the KDE desktop is up an running. But eth1 is taking several minutes (from after the KDE desktop is up and running) before it comes online. This temporarily breaks several services such as Named, DHCP, James (my email server), though when eth1 finally gets up an running these services do start up automatically as well. BUT this also causes problems on other computers on my internal network... What is worse however is that I mount several remote disk directories from fstab and these mounts do NOT automatically establish themselves until I manually do a mount -a as superuser on this gateway/server. And that breaks other services such as vsftp and bacula. This is a serious problem for me, as this system MUST be able to reboot and come up ok with all these services running without my attendance. (I run this system remotely and use a crude means of keeping the system working, i.e. I use a device called iBoot which will power cycle any computer which stops responding to pings from it... hence the reason it must be able to reboot without my attendance...) So how do I debug and fix this slow startup of eth1? I would really prefer to fix this issue and not find/use workarounds.. Any help offered sure will be appreciated, I am stuck and have ran out of ideas myself... 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] Video Sound Hell.....
by Jim Hatridge 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

HI all, OK, here's my problem. I record shows from my Sat disk. The machine makes two files one ending in ts and the other in idx. I want to change the two files to one avi file. SO I use avidemux to made the change. When I open the ts file avidemux says that its a mpeg file and needs to reindex it. I do this and avidemux makes a third file with the ending of ts.idx My problem is that the sound syn is off and I can't seem to get it in syn. I've tried to use the sound filters to delay and speed up, but it don't seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks! JIM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News 120 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 120 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * 1 Editors Note * 2 Announcements o 2.1 First openSUSE-LXDE Meeting * 3 Status Updates o 3.1 Distribution + 3.1.1 LinuxJournal/Ross Larson: Working With Suse Studio + 3.1.2 SUSE Studio: Welcome to the SUSE Studio blog! + 3.1.3 SUSE Studio: New features: base distribution upgrade and appliance notes + 3.1.4 Bugzilla * 4 Team Reports o 4.1 Build Service Team + 4.1.1 OBS MeeGo Developer Meeting + 4.1.2 Jan Kupec: zypper-1.4.2: rewritten package selection code + 4.1.3 Build Service Team Meeting + 4.1.4 openSUSE Build Service (OBS) 1.7.3 released + 4.1.5 Marcus Hüwe: osc 0.126 + 4.1.6 Build Service Statistics o 4.2 KDE Team + 4.2.1 Klaas Freitag (dragotin): Kraft 0.40 for KDE 4 Released + 4.2.2 Mehrdad Momeny (mtux): A new plugin system for Choqok + 4.2.3 KDE Meeting Minutes o 4.3 Mono Team + 4.3.1 Miguel de Icaza: MonoMac Bindings: Blending Cocoa and .NET on OSX o 4.4 openFATE Team + 4.4.1 Remove HAL support from libzypp and YaST + 4.4.2 Show history of accepted requests in webui for a project or package. + 4.4.3 Include Bibus, a bibliography tool that interacts with Openoffice via UNO + 4.4.4 NetworkManager 0.81 + 4.4.5 Statistics o 4.5 Testing Team + 4.5.1 Guest Blog: Testing Team Minutes (Week 16) o 4.6 Translation Team + 4.6.1 Localization * 5 In the Community o 5.1 Alex Barrios: Only a few days for the FLISOL in Venezuela o 5.2 Dorian Pula: Migrating to openSUSE o 5.3 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Meet the openSUSE Board o 5.4 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Open Source Contribution: How Chinese Students Enjoy Open Source o 5.5 openSUSE TV: openSUSE Conference 2009 – Building Moblin, the openSUSE way o 5.6 Martin Schlander: openSUSE-Guide.org – status report o 5.7 People of openSUSE + 5.7.1 People of openSUSE: Andrew Wafaa o 5.8 Events o 5.9 openSUSE for your ears o 5.10 openSUSE in $COUNTRY o 5.11 Communication o 5.12 Contributors * 6 New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE o 6.1 Packman: qmmp 0.3.4-1.pm.1.1 * 7 Security Updates o 7.1 Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.0 o 7.2 SUSE Security Announcement: acroread (SUSE-SA:2010:022) * 8 Kernel Review o 8.1 h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 1) – Network Support o 8.2 Linux Weekly News: Kernel prepatch 2.6.34-rc5 o 8.3 Guest Blog: Kernel Review with openSUSE Flavor (Week 16) * 9 Tips and Tricks o 9.1 For Commandline/Script Newbies + 9.1.1 nixCraft/Vivek Gite: 10 Tools To Add Some Spice To Your UNIX Shell Scripts + 9.1.2 Peteris Krumins: Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained + 9.1.3 Alex Barrios: Encrypt your files quick n’ dirty o 9.2 For Developers and Programmers + 9.2.1 Ars Technica/Ryan Paul: Tutorial: consuming Twitter’s real-time stream API in Python o 9.3 For System Administrators + 9.3.1 Uwe Gansert: AutoYaST and it’s Tools + 9.3.2 Christopher Hobbs: Novell Client on openSUSE 11.2 * 10 Planet SUSE o 10.1 Joe Brockmeier: Where’s the Summer of Documentation? o 10.2 Sascha Manns: Medical Task Force: GNUmed 0.7.1 (electronic medical record) available! * 11 openSUSE Forums o 11.1 Grub/Grub2 Ubuntu and openSUSE? o 11.2 Changing Directory o 11.3 How to access remote media? o 11.4 openSUSE updater not working * 12 On the Web o 12.1 Announcements + 12.1.1 Wine Version 1.1.43 + 12.1.2 Linuxfoundation: Announcing the 2010 were linux video winners o 12.2 Call for participation + 12.2.1 FrOSCon: Call for Papers + 12.2.2 TechSource/jun auza: The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest o 12.3 Reports + 12.3.1 ServerWatch/Sean Michael Kerner: IBM Adopts Novell’s Linux OS for Lotus, Websphere Appliances o 12.4 Reviews and Essays + 12.4.1 People of KDE: Interview with Thiago Macieira + 12.4.2 ConsortiumInfo.org/Andy Updegrove: Oracle’s ODF Plug-in Pricing: What’s up with That? o 12.5 Warning! + 12.5.1 US-CERT Current Activity – VideoLAN Releases Security Advisory for VLC Media Player * 13 Feedback / Communicate / Get Involved * 14 Credits * 15 Translations For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/120 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] setting a fixed video number
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

I have a (in the meantime) working webcam and a TV card. After a fresh boot they both are on video0. Would like to have the USB webcam (gspca) fixed on video0 and the Prolink TV card on video1. Where do I find the file to have that fixed? -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) "release 245" 15:42pm up 1:09, 2 users, load average: 1.04, 1.11, 1.42 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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