December 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: Re: UEFI
by JtWdyP 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

It would appear that on Oct 24, Greg Freemyer did say: > The keys themselves are public, but you as the hardware owner will > have to approve keys being added to public key database and therefore > ensure you are only adding public keys for entities you trust. "trust"??? OK if I'm supposed to add keys based on trust, how to subtract Microsoft??? {snicker} Actually I'm wondering about this: These public keys are effectively embedded in the kernel code somehow right? Or would it be possible for knowledgeable PC owner, to create his own "trust" key set. And then use it to "sign" an existing, older, formerly unsigned kernel. Then as PC Owner, add that key... {You see where I'm going with this right?} And if so, is there any reason that technique couldn't be used to install and run something like dos? {I have a couple of antique games you see} -- JtWdyP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 11.4 updates?
by James Knott 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

I've noticed that there haven't been any updates for 11.4 recently. Has it moved to Evergreen? If so, how do I switch? I currently run 11.4 on my firewall. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox "open with Package Installer" failure
by Marco Calistri 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi openSUSErs, Would like to know if somebody else is facing same problem as me attempting to install a rpm package from Firefox. For example, trying to install a new version of VirtualBox by clicking on the rpm link, opens correctly Package Installer but the process fails to an error message stating that process has been interrupted by the user. Anybody have same issue? I am using openSUSE 12.2. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Gnome 3.4.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] watermarks when printing with cups ?
by Per Jessen 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

I'm experimenting with adding a watermark/letterhead to a cups printing queue. I've seen a couple of suggestions on the net, the most promising ones by way of a cups filter and some postscript trickery. My problem is right now that the printjobs are sent as PJL, which ps2pdf, pdftk etc. cannot or will not deal with. My situation is essentially - I have a letterhead document (in odt, pdf or ps format) that I would like to add to every page printed in a dedicated cups queue. I don't want to fiddle with the *office setup on any individual PC, I want this to happen transparently. Any suggestions? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't boot VM - need to have a kernel first?
by Greg Freemyer 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

All, I've got a vmware VM I haven't used a few weeks. This is a Win7 laptop, but the VM is openSUSE 12.2. When I try to boot it tells me it can't load the initial ram disk because it has to have a kernel loaded first. I've attached a screenprint. I've got other openSUSE VM's on this laptop, but I don't have a openSUSE ISO / CD / DVD handy. What's a good way to fix this? If I download the network install CD, will it have a repair option? fyi: Nothing overly valuable on VM, I just have it configured to do packaging work, so it will save me some hassle not to have trash it. Greg

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[opensuse] diagram editor
by Hans Witvliet 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi all, I'm looking for an alternative diagram editor (mainly for networks) At work some use visio, that has nice libraries, but is handling connection in a horrible way. I was starting to use "dia" but it's output gave me harsh comments from co-workers. So, any other alternatives? Someone pointed towards yED (fom http://www.yworks.com) But the fact that you have to download a bin blob (it is neither in the OBS:editors nor in anyones home:/ dir), which you have run is a bit suspicious. (perhaps i'm paranoid or so) Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] The 12.2 installer is smarter than I thought
by Anton Aylward 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

A while back I asked about upgrading Mandriva to openSuse and wondered how smart the installer was. was told that cross distribution upgrades normally didn't work, but that Mageia was written by people that had left mandrake when it became Mandriva and that Mageia could update Mandrake/Mandriva. See early post for my reasons. Well thank you guys, I did upgrade to Mageia 2 and am happy with that. But I also put Mageia on a scratch machine and pushed it around in was that I wouldn't dream of for a production machine .... you know the kind of abuse .... :-) And then I decided to put openSuse 12.2 on the scratch machine. In went the DVD, reboot and when it do the the screen where I said "probing ..." it then offered "Install or upgrade". WTF I picked upgrade and Lo And Behold the installer was smart enough to upgrade my Mageia to openSuse ! Well almost. When it got to the bootloader it tried to install LILO. Nonono, I'd been using grub. I went back and it did not offer me a choice of the bootloader. It then muffed Lilo and and I had a system that wouldn't boot. You can, I found, "upgrade" all over again, but it still doesn't want to use grub. Close .... so close .... -- In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SKYPE 4.1 available
by Marco Calistri 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi folks, Just to inform eventual interested about the availability of SKYPE 4.1 for Linux. I installed the "dynamic tar.bz" version and have to add also libQtWebKit4-32bit in order to execute the binary. Happy new year! -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Gnome 3.4.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Chicony internal USB webcam too dark
by Roger Luedecke 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

When the camera first initializes it looks right for about one second, then goes dark. In Cheeze I can adjust the brightness, but this of course doesn't work in Skype or Google Hangouts. Also Cheeze hangs when trying to record video. I'd like to fix this of course. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd USB 2.0 Camera -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] thunderbird can't exit full screen
by lynn 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi 12.2 with XFCE When I hit 'Write' in tb, it fills the whole screen. There is no window border and the write window fills the whole screen. I have to do File > Close to get rid of it. How can I get the borders back so I can manipulate and resize the write window? I've tried pressing Esc, but nothing. Thanks, L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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