July 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system
by Sherin George 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hi, Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system Basically, this is a command to disable fsck based on reboot count & last fsck time. -- Regards, Sherin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Which Graphics card for openSUSE 11.4 and the future?
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hi all, I seem to have some problems with openSUSE 11.4 and graphics cards. Mine are relatively old nVidia (GeForce GT 220) and ATI's (Radeon X550/ RV370/SapphireX550 Silent). The nVidia card is suspect, I think an onboard memory problem. It freezes up irregularly. I want to replace it. With "ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.593" I get: ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run Created directory fglrx-install.YylA7t Verifying archive integrity... All good. ...... ..... which: "no XFree86 in <path>, ... Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:x86_64:lib::none:2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop; make sure that the version is being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro Strangely, in failsafe the glxgears run well with about 380 FPS. Well, I'm fed up with these cards. Please suggest the best fully supported Video card for openSuSE 11.4 and other Linux and future versions. :-) 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] Why does new NFS client not configure"
by Stan Goodman 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

The client is on a v11.4 laptop. The entries in YaST > NFS client are: Server: poblano Remote directory: /home/stan Mount point: /home/stan/nfs/poblano (which exists) NFS type: nfs Options: default (for the time being) NFSv4 is unchecked Firewall port is open on all interfaces (for the time being) fstab contains the line: "poblano:/home/stan /home/stan/nfs/poblano nfs defaults 0 0" An attempt to write this configuration results in: "Unable to mount NFS entries from /etc/fstab" I must be doing something foolish, but I don't see it. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- 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: kde office thumbnail plugin (was: two dolphin questions)
by Per Jessen 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Per Jessen wrote: > Martin Helm wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, 21:47:32 schrieb Per Jessen: >>> Per Jessen wrote: >>> > I'm getting closer now - Ive figured out how to enable strigi >>> > (courtesy of a Ubuntu page), and I'm now getting the hover window >>> > with >>> > the blue background on jpegs, and PDFs. For office documents I >>> > get the hourglass (or whatever the new busy icon is called). The >>> > info for PDFs is not complete at all. >>> >>> Okay, closer yet - using strigiclient I've started an index-run of >>> my home-directory, which has caused blue windows to be produced when >>> I hover over office documents - the meta-data are not shown and the >>> preview is no good, it's just a binary representation of the doc. >> >> For odf preview install the OpenDocument thumbnail plugin from > kde-apps.org/content/show.php/OpenOffice.org+Thumbnail+plugin?content=110864 >> the fedora 12 rpm works flawless with openSUSE 11.4 in dolphin and >> konqueror. > > Thanks, that makes the preview work! > I googled some and found this one for openSUSE: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries?package=kde4-odf-thumbnail-plug… > Small correction - the preview is fine for openoffice documents, less good for libreoffice documents. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (26.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Simple Network Booting Solution?
by Andrew Joakimsen 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

I already know how PXE works, etc. That's not an issue. The issue is I want to network boot openSUSE. Not an installer. I've read all the KIWI-LTSP stuff on the wiki but there aren't clear instructions and seems outdated (the documentation at least). All I was able to determine is in SUSE Studio website PXE images are disabled, but "SUSE Studio Onsite" is a paid (how many thousands? 50 thousand?) system that can build PXE booting images. That's basically all I need, build an image with a GUI and boot it over PXE. Even if I could boot the LiveCD over PXE, that would be fine. Is there a way to convert some image I build in SUSE studio to PXE image? What is even the difference? Just the proper support in initrd? Anyone have working recent instructions on how to accomplish this? All I need is to boot a (single) machine over PXE and run firefox. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] strigi questions
by Per Jessen 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

> Per Jessen wrote: > >> I'm getting closer now - Ive figured out how to enable strigi >> (courtesy of a Ubuntu page), and I'm now getting the hover window >> with >> the blue background on jpegs, and PDFs. For office documents I get >> the hourglass (or whatever the new busy icon is called). The info for >> PDFs is not complete at all. > > Okay, closer yet - using strigiclient I've started an index-run of my > home-directory, which has caused blue windows to be produced when I > hover over office documents - the meta-data are not shown and the > preview is no good, it's just a binary representation of the doc. I've completed indexing about 30K documents/files, but PDFs and office docs are still not showing meta-data. I'm more than a little hesitant about beginning to report bugs on issues such as this - I simply don't know what is supposed to work and what isn't. For instance, I tried running "strigi" via "ssh -X" which didn't work (presumably because "strigi" is somehow KDE internal?) That the preview for an office file is just a char dump must be a bug though, but am I wrong in thinking this whole thing is somewhat incomplete? More questions: How do I enable strigi for all users (of a machine)? How about indexing of shared folders? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.3°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Lost sound (KDE4)
by Per Jessen 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

I ran an upgrade of my sons desktop machine over the weekend, and it has now lost sound completely. Via YaST, I've deleted and reconfigured the soundcard, but this had no (apparent) effect. The card is currently detected as "d330 uT' with driver snd-intel8x0 - I'm afraid I don't know if that was also the previous config. AFAIR, the kmix application used to show several miscellaneous sliders, but they seem to have gone too. (replaced by 3-4 tabs with streams). Any suggestions on how to get sound back? (apart from reinstall). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kudos to the tumbleweed influence on 11.4
by David C. Rankin 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

All, Whether intended or not, one area where I have noticed great progress in 11.4 is package currency. For the past decade, after the initial release, SuSE/openSUSE always languished several versions behind other distros with regard to package versions available as either updates or through build service. Arch, the first rolling release I tried, absolutely blew me away with current packages where new packages were often available before the upstream public release of a version bump. Tumbleweed appears to have forced a similar currency in openSUSE which is a great benefit to the community. Now whether updating through zypper on openSUSE or pacman on Arch, a majority of the updates are to the upstream version. Excellent job! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4 taskbar
by James Knott 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Is it possible to change the taskbar from translucent to opaque? Translucent, with those washed out icons looks terrible. Stronger colours for those icons would also be nice. Also, what happened to the < & > buttons at the end of the task bar that are used to collapse it when desired. And who's bright idea was it to move the "X" button for closing an app or folder to the top left corner? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Strongswan version update on 11.3
by James Knott 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

The installed version of Strongswan on my openSUSE 11.3 firewall is 4.4.0, but I see the version for 11.4 is up to 4.5.0. Will that version install properly on 11.3? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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