May 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Upgrading the BIOS
by Basil Chupin 18 May '12

18 May '12

Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so. There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done. However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file. I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP. The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)? Thanks for any hints/comments. BC -- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill -- 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] OS Screen Capturing Application
by Alex 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody please recommend a good Open Source screen capturing application suitable for recording Webinars, Skype conversations and so on, and saving video / audio stream as mp3, flv or other formats which can be played in VLC or other media player applications. Thanks in advance, Alex -- 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] API mismatch for NVIDIA driver and kernel module
by Terry Eck 18 May '12

18 May '12

After some software updating I've suddenly get the following error message with I open motv. Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 290.10, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 295.40. Please make sure that the kernel module and All NVIDIA driver components have the same version. Can anyone help me resolve the problem. I'm not sure what to do. Thanks, Terry -- OpenSuSE 12.1 --- Kernel 3.1.9-1.4-desktop --- 07:50PM --- Wed 05/09/12 There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't -- 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] VirtualBox
by Basil Chupin 18 May '12

18 May '12

All right, I admit it: I cannot read manuals and always understand what they contain. Show me how something is done and I know what to do and how to solve a problem. But read a manual...... :-( . I have a simple question about VirtualBox to which I cannot find a straight answer. The question is: do I need to create a new, separate, VirtualBox for every operating system I want to run (under openSUSE 12.1) or do I only install the one VB which will then have separate "boxes" within it for the various OSs? For example, I want to be able to try out Milestone #4 of 12.2 but would like to try out some other distros just to see what they are about. Do I create a separate VB for each of these? Now, suppose I also decide to install the old copy of Windows XP as one of the OSs. Another VB for this because XP is noway even remotely close to a Linux OS? Someone please put me out of misery :-) . Anyone? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- 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] KMail in mailing list subscriptions
by Joseph Comfort 18 May '12

18 May '12

Before writing the previous message, I had to subscribe. When I clicked on 'subscribe' I got a message about converting KMail emails. I use TBird, so I skipped it. Then I got a message: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection. This has never happened before. What's up? I subscribed the old-fashioned way. Joe Comfort -- 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] Skip the update of a specific version of a package
by Gent Krasniqi 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hello, Is there a way to "skip" a particular version of an update indefinitely until a new version of the package comes out, so that it isn't offered to me in Apper constantly? Version 11.2.202.235 of flash-player turned out to be very unstable with my setup so i reverted to the previous version, and locked the flash-player and flash-player-kde4 packages. I find it very annoying that this update is still listed in Apper every time even though i exclude it when applying updates. With the way this is working the last few days it completely defeats the purpose of the "updates available" icon notification, as I have to check every time if it's really something I'm not already aware of. Windows 7 update manager does this pretty well I think. You right click the item and opt to not be offered that specific patch anymore (don't remember how it's called specifically). Thanks, Gent -- 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] amarok: Uninitialized MySQL
by Sascha Manns 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hello mates, since yesterday i'm getting an Errormessage while starting amarok. I've placed the Debugsnipped there: http://paste.opensuse.org/51104395 Can anyone reproduce this? I didn't understand the message. My MySQL Server is running, and should initialized... -- Sincerly yours Sascha Manns Community Agent open-slx GmbH Web (business): http://www.open-slx.com Web (private): http://saigkill.homelinux.net -- 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] building app; cpp undefined reference to constructor - need help fixing?
by David C. Rankin 17 May '12

17 May '12

Guys, I'm trying to apply a patch to the GNU external ballistics source and package it in a rpm, but I've got an undefined reference error during the link I need help fixing. The source for the app (patched for opensuse 11.4 [113k]) is: When building, I get an error during linking: g++ -O3 -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -L./lib/ballistics -o gebc InputWindow.o PlotWindow.o RangeWindow.o LicenseWindow.o AboutWindow.o PBRWindow.o GBCSolution.o GNU_Ballistics.o -lhpdf -lballistics -L/usr/lib64 -lfltk_images -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lfltk -lXext -lXft -lfontconfig -lXinerama -lpthread -ldl -lm -lX11 InputWindow.o: In function `InputWindow::cb_Target(Fl_Widget*, void*)': /usr/src/packages/BUILD/gebc-1.07/InputWindow.cpp:812: undefined reference to `TargetWindow::TargetWindow(int, int, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The error is generated on the 'new' call to create an instance of TargetWindow (line 812) in InputWindow.cpp below: void InputWindow::cb_Target(Fl_Widget* o, void* v){ InputWindow* T = (InputWindow*)v; GBCSolution* sln = T->gsln; GBCSolution* lmem1 = T->mem1; GBCSolution* lmem2 = T->mem2; GBCSolution* lmem3 = T->mem3; >> new TargetWindow(600,600,sln,lmem1,lmem2,lmem3); } InputWindow.h properly includes TargetWindow.h, so I don't understand why I get the undefined reference to TargetWindow::TargetWindow. The InputWindow.h includes: #ifndef __INPUTWINDOW #define __INPUTWINDOW #include "lib/ballistics/ballistics.h" #include <FL/Fl.H> #include <FL/Fl_Window.H> #include <FL/Fl_Help_Dialog.H> #include <FL/Fl_Output.H> #include <FL/Fl_File_Chooser.H> #include <FL/Fl_BMP_Image.H> #include <FL/Fl_Button.H> #include <FL/Fl_Input.H> #include <FL/Fl_Round_Button.H> #include <FL/Fl_Int_Input.H> #include <FL/Fl_Float_Input.H> #include <FL/Fl_Check_Button.H> #include <FL/Fl_Menu_Item.H> #include <FL/Fl_Menu_Bar.H> #include <FL/Fl_Multiline_Output.H> #include <FL/Fl_Box.H> #include <FL/Fl_Text_Display.H> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include "GBCSolution.h" #include "RangeWindow.h" #include "AboutWindow.h" #include "LicenseWindow.h" #include "PlotWindow.h" #include "TargetWindow.h" class InputWindow : public Fl_Window{ public: InputWindow(int w, int h, const char* title ); ~InputWindow(); <snip> static void cb_Target(Fl_Widget*, void*); <snip> TargetWindow.h contains the prototype for the TargetWindow constructor: #ifndef __TARGETWINDOW #define __TARGETWINDOW #include <FL/Fl.H> #include <FL/Fl_Window.H> #include <FL/Fl_Round_Button.H> #include <FL/Fl_Check_Button.H> #include <FL/Fl_Value_Slider.H> #include <FL/fl_draw.H> #include <FL/Fl_Menu_Bar.H> #include <FL/Fl_Menu_Item.H> #include <FL/Fl_Choice.H> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #include "GBCSolution.h" class TargetWindow : public Fl_Window { public: TargetWindow(int, int, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*, GBCSolution*); ~TargetWindow(void); <snip> And, finally TargetWindow.cpp contains the constructor: #include "TargetWindow.h" #define PT_PATH 0 TargetWindow::TargetWindow(int w, int h, GBCSolution* Gsln, GBCSolution* GMEM1, GBCSolution* GMEM2, GBCSolution* GMEM3) : Fl_Window(w,h,"Solution Visualization Tools"){ <snip> So what rule am I not seeing that is leading to the "InputWindow.cpp:812: undefined reference to `TargetWindow::TargetWindow(..." error? Is there something simple in the way it is declared that causes the problem? If I can send anything else, please let me know. I'm curious -- what am I missing here -- it all looks good (to me). Thanks. ======== original sourceforge sources + patches below ========= http://sourceforge.net/projects/balcomp/files/GNU%20Ballistics%20-%20Source… The original patch is: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3167921&group_id=216428&at… The patch to build on opensuse is (just fixes fl_draw.h -> fl_draw.H): http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/sources/gebc-openSuSE.diff -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] Amarok will not play after KDE 4.8.2 or 4.8.3 and patches
by George Olson 17 May '12

17 May '12

I use Amarok to organize my mp3 language recordings and ever since I upgraded to KDE 4.8.2 on both my 64 bit machines, it will not play mp3 files. It does play on my 32 bit desktop. I have since upgraded to KDE 4.8.3 and installed the patches, but it still does not play. I have gone to settings -> configure Amarok -> configure Phonon and tested the sound playback hitting the test button, as you can see in the screen shot on this link. When I hit test, the test sound plays perfectly, but the regular play button on an mp3 file (or any file for that matter) through Amarok will not play. The sliding progress marker for the file indicates that Amarok is playing the sound file, but no sound comes out of the speakers. http://picpaste.com/konquerorimg5-pJfrxugy.jpg I ran pavucontrol while playing, and there is no indication of output when the sound file is playing in Amarok. However, when I play the test sound on configure Phonon, there is sound through the speakers and an indication of sound output in pavucontrol. The files all play in VLC, banshee, totem, kaffeine, sm player, and just about any other application. Has anyone else had this problem? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- 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] glibc example - qsort muppet warnings - stdlib.h expected ‘__compar_fn_t’
by David C. Rankin 17 May '12

17 May '12

Cristian, Andreas, All, I have stumbled across another potential warning in the qsort example of the libc manual that could be addressed in the 2.16 release. Sections 9.3 (qsort) and section 9.4 (muppet example of qsort) provide example of qsort. However, on compile, incompatible pointer type warnings are received. (test on 11.4) 09:20 alchemy:~/dev/prg/ccpp/src-c/misc> gcc -Wall -o qsortmup qsort-muppets.c qsort-muppets.c: In function ‘find_critter’: qsort-muppets.c:62:7: warning: passing argument 5 of ‘bsearch’ from incompatible pointer type /usr/include/stdlib.h:750:14: note: expected ‘__compar_fn_t’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)(const struct critter *, const struct critter *)’ qsort-muppets.c: In function ‘main’: qsort-muppets.c:80:41: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘qsort’ from incompatible pointer type /usr/include/stdlib.h:756:13: note: expected ‘__compar_fn_t’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)(const struct critter *, const struct critter *)’ This same warning effects the remaining examples of qsort in the manual. Eg: section 5.6 "sort_strings_fast" example. Is there something I'm doing wrong in building the example that causes these warnings? Some type of typecast or typedef needed to eliminate it? If so it would be helpful to reference it in the example to insure it can be built without warning. (same warnings are present when building on gcc 4.7) What say the experts? Howto eliminate the warnings? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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