October 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] What is the "official" way to mount floppy in openSUSE 12.x?
by Istvan Gabor 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hello: The subject says the question. [In pre 12 suse versions I had a /media/floppy directory where the floppy could be mounted at (by using the floppy icon on KDE3's desktop). In 12.x there is no such directory, and if created it will be removed at next boot, as I know correctly. Of course I could make a floppy dir under / or somewhere else, but I'd prefer its location to be in /media, since floppy is a media. Why should it be then outside of media dir?] What is the official way of mounting floppy in 12.x.? I have openSUSE 12.1 with KDE3 currently. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] systemd vs cups
by Ruediger Meier 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

On Tuesday 08 October 2013, Hans Witvliet wrote: > # lsof -i -n -P |grep 631 > systemd 1 root 36u IPv6 6063 0t0 TCP *:631 > (LISTEN) systemd 1 root 38u IPv4 6064 0t0 UDP > *:631 cupsd 363 root 4u IPv6 6063 0t0 TCP *:631 > (LISTEN) cupsd 363 root 5u IPv4 6064 0t0 UDP > *:631 cupsd 363 root 10u IPv4 8580 0t0 TCP > 127.0.0.1:631 So this is probaly systemd's start on demand feature. It listens on port 631 and starts cupsd if there is incomming traffic. cu, Rudi N��r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛��m�)z{.��+�:�{Zr�az�'z��j)h��Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��

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[opensuse] opensuse12.3 - cannot make ext drive available to all users
by John King 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives. Our office desktop is used by several people during the day; each user has her/his own account, and users switch between them with the usual ctrl+alt+Fn combination. Most of our data is stored on an external drive. The first user plugs it in, and the last user of the day ejects it and stores it away securely. At least, that's what used to happen with opensuse 12.2. Since moving to 12.3, we find we can't do that. The first user has sole use of the drive in /var/run/media/<username1>, and other users have no access, which means they cannot access or update our data. Is there any (fairly straightforward) way we can restore the previous behaviour, and allow multiple users to access the external drive? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Very ODD Bluetooth issue on openSUSE 12.3!
by Marco Calistri 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Il 29/09/2013 16:50, John Andersen ha scritto: > On 9/29/2013 9:34 AM, Marco Calistri wrote: >> Dear openSuSers, >> >> >> The oddity of this issue is verging the incredible!: >> >> I have a Nokia Lumia 710 smart-phone, running WP-7.8 and I tried to send >> a picture from it to my laptop which is running openSUSE 12.3 64 bits, >> both from being logged in KDE or Gnome DE, but never the picture is sent >> to the computer. >> >> I have of course enabled the file sharing and reviewed all the >> configuration of Blue-tooth, but nothing to do: openSUSE refuses to >> accept and download the picture from the smart-phone. > > On KDE, it seems that pairing is a bit different, at least on 12.3. > It doesn't care about pins. > You click the taskbar tray Icon for bluetooth and select configure > Then in the configure window you scan for devices (add a device). > This should find your device and show its MAC in hex characters as well as its name. > > If you select Trusted, then opensuse+KDE will accept connections from that device > (whether or not it your Computer is set as visible), and upon sending a file it > will pup up a window to accept the file or not. (You can always set this as the default > action for files from that device from that same pop up window). > > (I don't have a windows phone to test with, so I tested with A Surface Pro tablet.) > > Each time I try to send a file from the device to opensuse/kde I see an authenticate > box on the surface pro. But you have to uncheck that, because KDE is using the > concept of a trusted device and the authentication option does not show > an actionable dialog on KDE. > > Hi John, The fact is that using BlueTooth in openSUSE 12.3 I cannot send from external device to the system, I can do the contrary: from system to device, though not always! But I can do it by sending from external device to an Ubuntu virtual machine running in same openSUSE 12.3, that is the oddity: it seems something is wrong in openSUSE. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64 bit - Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Gnome 3.8.3 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] Laptop with NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology
by Basil Chupin 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

(Tip-toeing thru a minefield when trying to decide which laptop to buy is not much fun :-( .) What hidden reefs am I going to strike if I buy a laptop, to install openSUSE (13.1- and beyond), which has for its graphics something called 'NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology'? Will I be able to install oS on such a beast and get at least some fuzzy picture on the screen or not? (The laptop will come with Windows #8 pre-installed and which I will immediately consign to the latrine - after having it updated for free to 8.1 of course :-) .) Anybody, please, have an answer to, comment on, the above question? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 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 GTX660 OC 2GB 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] Patch for nVidia driver 319.60?
by Basil Chupin 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

I've checked the Forums but don't see the answer to my question: is there a patch for the latest nVidia driver 319.60 so that it can be compiled for the 3.11.x kernel. Does anyone know, please, if such a patch exists and if so where is it to be found? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 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 GTX660 OC 2GB 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] Syncing akonadi and android tablet via server?
by Stefan Gofferje 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi, after I caught Google basically red-handed stealing the data from my Android address-book (see http://stefan.gofferje.net/news-blogs/it/172-why-one-shouldn-t-use-google-s…) I simply assume that they do similar stuff e.g. with the calendar and notes. Thus, I would like to find another solution but I'm not really deep in the PIM topic. Question: What would be the simplest Linux server-side software solution that would allow at minimum syncing of contacts, calendar and notes with an Android tablet and with akonadi. If it supports more devices/protocols, it would even be better. -Stefan -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface

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[opensuse] False double clicks
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Both my laptop, Lenovo T520, with OpenSuSE 12.2 and my wife's laptop, Dell XPS M1330N, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS have problems with multiple clicks. A single click may do a double click action. I double click a desktop icon and two to four instances of the application start. A year or two ago, neither of these laptops had this problem. It is particularly bad in VirtualBox running Windows 7 and Quicken. Is anyone else seeing this? Have you found a solution? TIA, Jeffrey -- 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] Seriously thinking to switch to LinuxMint 15
by Marco Calistri 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Hi, Sad to write this but I'm seriously thinking to migrate my openSUSE system toward Linux Mint 15. I installed Mint 15 as VirtualBox guest and it looks really superb with very crisp desktop and fonts and furthermore is working flawlessly! On the contrary I installed openSUSE 13.1 RC1 as well as VirtualBox guest but are still present some problems with Bluetooth and with Screen identification despite I installed Guest Additions. Ok RC1 is not the final version but sincerely I was expecting a better behaviour by openSUSE! Please tell me that I am wrong. Regards, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64 bit - Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Gnome 3.8.3 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] dynamic ip address help wanted
by doiggl＠velocitynet.com.au 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hello, Question: How can I allow 2 laptops to share information between each other. The laptops are running opensuse 12.3 64 bit. They are both connected ta a adsl router/modem and the DHCP Server Status settings are listed at [1] - How can I allow setup the 2 laptops to get a dynamic DHCP ip address from router/modem Is there any existing documentation on this subject ? Thanks Glenn [1] DHCP Server Status Allow Bootp true Allow Unknown Clients true Enable true Subnet Definitions Subnet Value 192.168.1.0 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Maximum Lease Time 86400 seconds Default Lease Time 43200 seconds Use local host address as DNS server true Use local host address as default gateway true Get subnet from IP interface iplan IP Range 192.168.1.1- 192.168.1.20 Option domain-name-servers= 0.0.0.0 other settings # /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth0 info, eth0: dhcpcd 3.2.3 starting info, eth0: hardware address = 20:cf:30:28:fd:a2 info, eth0: broadcasting for a lease debug, eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x5e04523d debug, eth0: waiting for 20 seconds debug, eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x5e04523d debug, eth0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x5e04523d debug, eth0: got a packet with xid 0x5e04523d info, eth0: offered 192.168.1.1 from 192.168.1.254 debug, eth0: sending DHCP_REQUEST with xid 0x5e04523d debug, eth0: waiting for 11 seconds debug, eth0: got a packet with xid 0x5e04523d info, eth0: checking 192.168.1.1 is available on attached networks debug, eth0: sending ARP probe #1 debug, eth0: sending ARP probe #2 debug, eth0: sending ARP probe #3 debug, eth0: sending ARP claim #1 debug, eth0: sending ARP claim #2 info, eth0: leased 192.168.1.1 for 43200 seconds debug, eth0: renew in 21600 seconds debug, eth0: rebind in 37800 seconds info, eth0: adding IP address 192.168.1.1/24 info, eth0: adding default route via 192.168.1.254 metric 0 info, eth0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16 metric 0 debug, eth0: writing /etc/resolv.conf debug, eth0: writing /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info debug, eth0: forking to background info, eth0: exiting -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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