November 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] PDFs printing 2" offset in landscape mode with Adobe
by Anton Aylward 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

This is pretty consistent. If I print in landscape mode with Adobe the image is raised about 2", that is the top 2" are cut off and there's white-space at the bottom. Adbobe, I presume, is the default, since when I visit, using firefox the following http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/Nmap5.cheatsheet.eng.v1.pdf for example, and click on the printer icon on the top right, I get that "offset". Yes I am telling Adobe to center. Same of I save to file and print the file using Adobe. The printer is a Brother HL-5170DN using CUPS. However if I use Okular or FoxitReader to view and print it comes out OK, so I don't think this is a purely CUPS/Brother issue. Any ideas? -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- 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] display fault on Dell laptop, nVidia driver
by Peter 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

My main machine's on the blink (quite literally, sometimes). Probably not an openSUSE-specific problem, but can't be sure. In the worst case, it could be a hardware fault brought about by a rogue driver, but I'm probably just being paranoid there. Can anybody recognise the following symptoms and tell me what's likely at fault? (openSUSE 13.1, 64-bit. KDE 4.11) I have a Dell Latitude D630 laptop, usually hooked up to a docking station, at which times I use a TV/monitor on the dock's VGA port, running at the same scaled down resolution to match the laptop display. It has an nVidia Quadro NVS 135M for graphics, and I've always used the nVidia proprietary driver with no problems. I keep the nVidia driver updated via the official repo, but in the last couple of months or so, I've noticed increasing bouts of flickering (momentary glitches), something that never used to occur. Now in the last few days, I'm getting major graphics issues, whereby the screen will suddenly become corrupted and the machine locks up. My only escape is a reboot with the Magic SysRq keys. At these times the display often shows vertical lines which cycle through some colour changes for a few seconds (always openSUSE greens for some reason) before coming to a rest. I've taken a photo, here: http://susepaste.org/74388053 This corruption sometimes persists on a cold/warm reboot, leading me to believe it's faulty hardware, but other times I might typically reach the KDE login screen, and the moment I hit a key it will go corrupted. To try and diagnose some more, I removed the laptop from the dock, removed the battery and plugged it in separately with no other peripherals. I also took out half the 4GB RAM and let the Dell BIOS diagnostics perform some lengthy testing, most of it on the remaining 2GB RAM (which was new from Crucial last year). After letting that finish a few hours later reporting no problems, I booted the machine in that state and it failed again. If this is a hardware fault, anybody know which part exactly is likely failing? Most parts on this machine are replaceable though it may not be economical to do so. Is it remotely possible that some bug in the display driver is corrupting either the graphics or main memory? For the moment I'm typing on the faulty machine but this week it's rapidly becoming less and less reliable; I fear my remaining keystrokes are limited. Peter -- 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] Tumbleweed users should do zypper up or dup to stay current?
by Moby 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

I have some systems that I upgraded to OSS tumbleweed. The upgrade itself was done via zypper dup. With the recent changes to tumbleweed, do I need to do a zypper dup on a regular basis to stay current with tumbleweed or can I keep on doing zypper up like I am used to from the past? Thanks in advance for your help, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- 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] Semantik
by Robert Rea 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

I just installed this. I want to look at it and see what it's good for. Is there a manual or help file anywhere? -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery America, it was a wonderful country until they took it private and turned it into a theme park of itself -- 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] Ripping to tablet
by Anton Aylward 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

When I look for ways to watch DVD movies on my tablet I find many tools that rip the DVD, and, I think, convert it to something like a MP4 that the tablet can handle. However they all seem to run on the MAC or Windows. Nor do the seem to be FOSS. How would I go about watching a DVD sourced movie given that I have suse/linux as my "main" computer but not access to Windows or a MAC? -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- 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] btrfs (with subvolumes) & raid-1 setup
by Gour 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hello, I'm considering to move from Debian (Sid) to openSuSe where my Linux adventure has begun in 1999. :-) At the moment I use raid-1 setup of 2 X 1TB GPT-partitioned disks with the following layout: /dev/sd(a,b)1 bios_grub 2MB /dev/sd(a,b)2 swap 8GB /dev/sd(a,b)3 btrfs 923.51GB /dev/sd(a,b)2 partitions are in raid1 swap volume, while btrfs partitions are also in raid-1 and I use subvolumes for / & /home: UUID=some-uuid / btrfs defaults,noatime,compress=lzo,autodefrag,subvol=@ 0 0 UUID=some-uuid /home btrfs defaults,noatime,compress=lzo,autodefrag,subvol=@home 0 0 I'd like to replicate this setup with Suse as well, but, if I'm right, the installer in 13.2 can't do it? The other option, which I used when installing Debian, is to install Suse on single disk and then clone it and add to raid-1 array. Any hint? Sincerely, Gour -- Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior due to the performers' lack of knowledge. -- 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] Legacy BIOS, GRUB and Btrfs - bug or feature?
by Vojtěch Zeisek 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Just to report and may be warn little bit. I was installing openSUSE aside already existing Windows 7 on new Dell notebook. For some unknown reason it was set up to use legacy BIOS, so no UEFI, no secure boot. I don't know why, I didn't do it, it wasn't my notebook. And I couldn't just reinstall Windows. I started to install 13.2 and disk partitioner offered to shrink Windows part and use Btrfs. I accepted defaults as it looked correct. Installation failed in the last step during installation of GRUB2. It correctly determined it has to use GRUB2 and not GRUB2-EFI. But it seems „plain“ Grub2 doesn't work with Btrfs. Finally I managed to push GRUB2 there, but on the first boot it failed saying „Wrong filesystem“. So I reinstalled openSUSE using EXT4 this time and it worked perfectly. Both systems are working fine. So I wonder if it is my lack of knowledge that GRUB2 doesn't work (apparently) with Btrfs or it is a bug as installer should (although I have no idea how) determine it during installation and not to recommend Btrfs. What the experts think? All the best, Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/

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[opensuse] semi rant on kde4
by Istvan Gabor 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hello: I had to install debian wheezy which comes with KDE 4.8.4. This KDE4 has a _serious_ bug which almost make it unusable. One of them is that the mouse pointer becomes invisible (literally disappears) when moved over specific areas, eg over window buttons. This is annoying but one can live with it. But when I move the pointer over an xsane preview area the mouse pointer is not visible anywhere in the preview window. This makes impossible to select the area to be scanned. An this is what I find unacceptable. Another pointer related bug is that the pointer style can not be set to classic permanently. After logout/login it is reverted to the default style. And now the point: I know that KDE 4.8 is a relatively old KDE version. But according to https://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule it was released in June 2012. KDE 4.1 was released in July 2008, 4 years earlier. I could not find release info on KDE 4.0. Is this normal that after 4 years of intensive development such bugs still exist? KDE3 whole life cycle maybe was less than 4 years. But I cannot recall if it had such a serious bug. On a desktop the mouse pointer is not visible over certain areas.??? How could this be released at all? 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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[opensuse] UPS : replacing battery with 12 volt Jelly Car Battery
by ellanios82 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello List, - recently my UPS 12 volt battery has given-up the ghost and died. Due location it is not easy to get exact correct replacement UPS Battery. - could someone be so kind to advise : is it safely possible to replace dead battery with a 12 volt jelly Car Battery ? thanks regards ellan -- 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] Why is dovecot using user home directory?
by James Knott 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

All this past week, I have been trying to get dovecot to work properly. For some reason, it now wants to use the users home directory, instead of ~/mail. Dovecot.conf has the line mail_location = mbox:/mail. I have also tried with mail_location = mbox:/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs. Despite this, the home directory continues to be used, with all the files and directories (including hidden) appearing in the email client. Why is this happening now? I have set up dovecot several times in the past and never had this happen. Is this someone's idea of a "feature"? How many more hours must I waste trying to get this to work properly??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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