June 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] ... Huh ..., my app-windows lost the frame with the min/max/close buttons?!
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Hi all, Yesterday I recovered from two freezes by Gnome 2.32 on a new OS 11.4 within one hour. I decided to carry on with KDE4. I am not sure how it happened, but I noticed that the bar on top of the menu bar, actually the top part of the frame, disappeared. Some windows cannot be resized by dragging a corner ( I mostly drag the bottom right corner). I can only close windows by the menu - file - Close/Quit, or when there is no menu, only by using F4. How did it happen? Has it to do with desktop settings. Very annoying. Tried InternetSearch with goggle/ixquick, no clear answers found. The other point is, why does Gnome freeze up? I also tried a Gnome 3 installation - it just lost the whole desktop; I first suspected the nVidia, but it worked fine the last 3 years with older openSuSE versions. Got KDE3 running, but Gnome was dead. The Gnome with 11.4 is quite usable for me (matter of taste); similar to the MacBook I use as well. I personally prefer the Gnome 2.32 on 11.4 to KDE4 for its 'simplicity'. I will try Gnome 3 on a VirtualBox later - looks very different to previous Gnome - not sure if I like it. :-( Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CLI Mime-multipart tools
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

I need to build a mime-multipart file from several files of different types. Is there a command line tool to do this? Gmime documentation that I can find just treats it like a library. I'd rather not have to roll my own. Jeffrey -- 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 180 is out!
by Sascha Manns 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 180 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this Issue: openSUSE Conference and RW sessions – the BoF Google Summer of Code Reports TechRepublic/Jack Wallen: Five tips for collaborating in LibreOffice Jos Poortvliet: openSUSE and online services and many more ... For a list of available translations see the Translations Section in the actual Weekly News. [0] http://bit.ly/me6CFy (in PDF) [0] http://bit.ly/ifUBXY (in HTML with Bento Theme) [0] http://bit.ly/ivAhKQ (in HTML with Susebooks Theme)) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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] Is there a 'clan bomber' build for 11.4?
by Philipp Thomas 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

* David C. Rankin (drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com) [20110616 01:58]: > I looked at building it from source, but there seems to be a > problem with the data type DirectResults and DFBResults. You mean clanbomber2. I solved that problem by casting the former to the latter. In C++ enums are distinct types so they can't be converted automatically. > If you fix that, then you run into problems with ffmpeg data types. I had no problems with that. I've checked in fixed packages for both FusionSound and clanbomber2 into the games repository. have fun Philipp -- 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 does not fully boot
by Koenraad Lelong 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, My new latop running OS 11.4 does not fully boot anymore. When I add 3 to the Grub boot-line, I see a number of services being started but then the machine hangs hard. The only thing I can do is press the power-button. AFAIK there was no change since the last time I booted it. What did happen was that I could not shut down. I had to press the power button. Maybe related ? Anyway, I would like to have my laptop back, without re-installing. What can I do to recover ? With a recovery CD I disabled the last services I saw starting, but this did not help. I have the impression it stops when starting the video. But it's the same problem when I start in runlevel 3. /var/log/Xorg.0.log is empty (0 bytes). Where could I disable the graphics video ? I have the ATI video drivers installed. They did work for some days though, but to eliminate that I want to use the framebuffer, like just after the installation. Thanks for any help. Regards, Koenraad Lelong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mac TimeMachine like backup for Linux?
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi all, til present I used my own script for backups using DAR. A drawback is that it is rather slow with good compression, and is useless if the last slice is defect. Happened to me twice the last 5 years. On my MacBook I have come to appreciate TimeMachine. I use VirtualBox and openSuSE 11.4 on it as host. Works quite well. Mac OSX 10.6.5 is not as flexable, even with the whole development environment and MacPorts, ok for administering other Linux systems, but my virtual machines are always backed up comfortably by TimeMachine. I would like to make a TiemMachine like backup on my openSuSE Linux Raid 10 server, in development to a data server, onto a USB-2/eSATA 2TB external disk. I have seen there are apps like Backupper and Flyback. Anyone using an app that works with the ease of TimeMachine on linux. Any experiences and comments are welcome. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Support for new motherboard features?
by Thomas Taylor 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hi All; Has anyone used an MSI 890FXA-GD65 with openSUSE yet? A fairly new board with: 1)USB-3 2)SATA III (6G) by AMD® SB850 3)Crossfire-X 4)AMD® 890FX and SB850 chipsets 5)PCI Express 2.0 x16 & PCI Express 2.0 x1 6)RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (SATA III ) mode by AMD® SB850 7)audio integrated by Realtek® ALC892 Chipset. Are any of these features NOT YET supported by openSUSE 11.4 or 12.1? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.6.1, FF 4.0.1 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ACPI on OS 11.4 LXDE
by JC Francois 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hi, I just installed OS 11.4 64bit with LXDE on a virtual machine using the LiveCD. One thing I cannot find is the interface to set the power management settings (e.g. timer before going in suspend mode, hibernation, etc.). I found the power management of the monitor in the xscreensaver dialog but nothing else. Where should I look? Is there an additional package that I need to install? Thanks, JC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] too restrictive limit on number of bridges
by Hans Witvliet 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi all, I just created some xen-virtual machines with the yast2 module. To my surprise i was not able to attache more than three network devices to it. I presume this is i limitation by the yast-module, as the limit by XEN is eight network devices for quite some time now. And needles to say, i'v increased allready the number of dummy devices are bridges. So that shouldn't be the cause either. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Create network bridge within initrd?
by Hal Martin 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello all, I am working with some HP Blade servers that we are iSCSI booting off a SAN. We'd like to use network bridges for Xen DomUs to connect to, but currently SLE11 SP1 boots with only eth0 active; The interface was setup by the HP iSCSI boot ROM. Unfortunately defining a bridge in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-br* doesn't work because /etc/init.d/network takes down eth0 in the process and we lose disk access (/ is iSCSI virtual disk). My workaround has been to write an init script that creates a ramdisk and copies over the binaries required to setup the bridge. The iSCSI timeout is such that being without / for the 20 or so seconds it takes to run my init script doesn't cause the iSCSI initiator to disconnect. However, my init script is a hack; using initrd would be better as initrd is already a ramdisk. Looking inside the initrd for 2.6.32.36-0.5 I see that the SuSE scripts support bonding, but not bridging. Has anyone modified the mkinitrd scripts to allow for bridge initialization within initrd? I don't have much experience with editing initrd scripts, so I thought I'd ask on the list before I tried to patch anything. Thanks, Hal Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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