December 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] HDMI Display to Screen?
by Lew Wolfgang 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Hi Folks, I'm not sure this can be done, but I'd like to be able to watch my Fox News channel :-) distributed by my cable TV provider, in a resizeable window on my KDE desktop. I'm currently doing this with a WinTV adapter based on the Bt878 chipset. It's been working fine for many years, but my cable provider is dropping all analog channels next month. So it would be nice to be able to install a board that would have HDMI input that would display on KDE the way tvtime currently does. I'd be able to use a TiVo Mini if this were possible. There seems to be some options, but they're all targeted for Windows systems. Does anyone have any experience displaying HDMI content on a KDE Linux desktop? (audio too!) Regards, Lew -- 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] Wiki as foundation of a community
by Xen 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Back in the day, when I was still someone not entirely lost in the world, I remember having had a personal wiki page on the OpenSUSE wiki. I had collected some information that was relevant to me and created a personal page, then linked to it from a community page on the same subject, more or less. Today, really, when I go to the wiki it doesn't seem inviting to me. It seems badly organized or in any case doesn't invite reading. I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it and there is probably a wealth of information contained in these pages. But it seems too BIG to find your way there. I do not know why. Not straight away. In this mailing list, the wiki is also never mentioned or linked to, as far as I can tell. A wiki usually is a place where there's room for individuality. A good wiki invites users to make their own custom personal pages. If a wiki is just used as "official documentation" then its maintainers are also people in "official positions". But that doesn't create community. Back in the day, the first internet community in the Netherlands was the /Digital City of Amsterdam/. Under the dds.nl domain, which still operates, but no longer as the same thing, people created houses as part of squares, streets, etc. I never much participated but they also had the first chat rooms in the new internet era that they called "metros" which were refreshing HTML pages. It was a pretty vibrant community back then. But such a thing functions because people /can do their own thing/. It doesn't seem the same is true of OpenSUSE today. [( Back then I posted some inflammatory opinions on the topic of mp3/dvd codecs being supplied, and the lack of it making life really hard. But it was on my personal page. I am still of the same opinion. People came in though and tried to "make me see the light". I budged, and removed some of the language. Still, I had a place, and there was a way for me to "contribute". )]. Today there seems to be very little room for personal contribution. Usually people want you to do some kind of work in some kind of official capacity. When back in the day I was a frequent visitor of that wiki, today I don't care for it at all. And it is not because I have changed. I am still the same person. We seem to be living in a different world. So a wiki needs to be a bit messy. The way a real neighbourhood is messy. It can't be perfectly aligned and organized because that means the barrier to entry becomes really high. The pages can't reside /too deep/ and I think this is the case today a bit, I believe. The wiki is also just a tiny link at the bottom of a very commercial front page. A front page the likes of many front pages these days that seem only to be intended for tablet viewing. They are horrible to use on a real computer. These modern day webpages, and their layout, with the BIG IMAGES and the BIG TEXT and you have to SCROLL THE ENTIRE PAGE just to see the NEXT LINE OF TEXt and it is just a flawed concept. It is a broken concept. It doesn't work. It is pretty but it doesn't work. It is not a website for people to feel at home in. It is really a front page that scares you away: YOU DO NOT WANT TO REVISIT THAT PAGE if you don't have to. There is probably a lot of blabla going on in the design community as to how wonderful they are, but yeah. I am saying we have seen a deteroriation compared to what we had in the past. It is 80% regression and 20% progress. The front page scares you away, and the wiki is not inviting. That is two main elements of an internet community. The forums do not really foster community, they are also tightly controlled with a certain marketing goal in mind. I was more content with OpenSUSE in the past. Maybe 5x more. Ubuntu.com also has a front page like that, better or more usable than OpenSUSE's, but it still communicates right away: this is NOT a community site where you have your own account. "Community" is a TINY link and when you click on it you see a big crowd but it definitely doesn't feel as a place to feel at home in. It scares people off and doesn't invite them in. And I am wondering here how many of you have the same feeling? *I* for the life of me cannot change a thing like that. I had no part in its construction, and I could never improve any of it; it is way beyond my control. 'Reading someone else's code is a horror anyway, and improving someone else's product is not a lot of fun'. But certainly what I say today must not come as a suprise, or come across as something alien to more people here? Does this resonate with anyone? Regards, Xen. -- 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: Re: [opensuse] Re: Moderation on mailing list
by stakanov＠freenet.de 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ianseeks > Gesendet: Do. 24.12.2015 20:43 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Re: Moderation on mailing list > > On Thursday 24 Dec 2015 18:52:01 buhorojo wrote: >> On 23/12/15 09:35, Richard Brown wrote: hopeful that when he returns in February we can >> > all experience his positive involvement in the Project witho >> >> Please reinstate him now. His off list help in both Spanish and English >> has been invaluable to us. >> Thanks. > > i second that > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- As Carlos never caused me any harm and helped me on several occasions I would also second his reinstatement at the first possible occasion. This would allow him to continue his useful contribution. And if such a measure (ban) wants to be useful, it can only be it through its very time limitless. Isn't it? Otherwise we would send all people sooner or later for "renewal" as in 1976's "Logan's run". So +1 from me. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] KDE Connect
by John M Andersen 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

On 12/31/2015 12:44 AM, Josep Solé wrote: > By the way, do you know if it is possible to copy sms messages from > your phone to pc? Google will help: http://www.mobikin.com/android-backup/transfer-text-messages-from-android-t… http://www.recovery-android.com/transfer-sms-from-android-to-computer.html http://www.howtogeek.com/112852/how-to-backup-your-text-messages-to-your-gm… -- 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: Re: [opensuse] Scan application question: [SOLVED]
by stakanov＠freenet.de 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: John Andersen > Gesendet: Do. 17.12.2015 20:20 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org First of all thank you to all who replied (also to Carlos ER who replied, given current restrictions off list and was - as times before - helpful). Special thanks also to jdd for his heads-up pointing to the commercial version "Vuescan" (where the only thing that I do not understand yet is the SANE problematic. I wonder if that solution gives also drivers for Canon 4200 and 8100F etc who are chronically long-time-no-served. I am currently using a Canon 210 that is primitive but marvellously supported by SANE. Simple-Scan was the solution I did use on 13.2 before. I found myself quite satisfied (although verrrry shaky with a lot of crashes) with the (g)scan2pdf application. This is the first time I see something that offers integration of tesseract (a gift that has not really been used to a full extend yet). I particularly liked the results in colour, I think however that the devised floating menu with settings is a bit cumbersome (coming from omnipage pro where I would have been happy if it would have been available for linux). However from a resources point of view, useful scanning needs IMO a 4-8 core CPU with 8-32 GB of RAM where for colour scan I would go for a minimum of 16 GB. Otherwise it is getting masochism. So my personal classification of usability and completeness is at the end: (g)scan2pdf (although stability should be better). Simple-Scan Scanlite For who is coming by these days and want to install (g)scan2pdf in leap, you have to take the unstable version and use also a supplementary phyton repo for the dependencies. This because there is a gtk2 dependency to be fulfilled. Once done the repoadd installation was (in my case Leap) straightforward. It would be nice to have a native kde app for this but I know, resources are scarce. I will have a close look to Vuescan too. It seems that all in all in this aspect some advances (although still timid) have been achieved. Scanning is still one of the "open" fields in Linux to make the desktop experience complete. Still I wouldn't go back to windows not even for payment Still, thank you all for your input. P.S. xscan I didn't try, so I do not comment, others may want to have a look. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] Leap keeps crashing just after grub menu
by jdd 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960392 I was thinking initially at a resume problem, but in fact iyt's only a random crash: sometime the computer stop with a black screen just after the grub menu, else it starts normally. no log at this time is this the right mailing list to report (bug filled)? thanks jdd -- 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: OffList Re: [opensuse] New to desktop usage of Linux, is OpenSuSE the right distro for this use-case?
by Carlos E. R. 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-12-31 00:51, Anton Aylward wrote: > On 12/30/2015 06:09 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> I don't have problem viewing almost anything with FF. Do you >> have links of problematic sites? Ah, youtube. Then a problematic >> video? > > Other non-Youtube such as the lectures from Brighttalk, cause a > small windows -- "Do you want to allow ... "- to appear So yes, I > can view flash. > > >> Do you have flash installed? And flashblock? The latter often >> causes problems at youtube. It argues with FF what is allowed and >> what not, causing a race condition, trying html5, and if this >> fails, as there is no flash support (because it is blocked), then >> fails completely. > > I have Flashblock 1.5.19. According to the docco, that is what > causes the "Do you want to allow ..." message. So why does it > work with others but not Youtube? I guess because YT tries to detect what you have available, flash and/or html5. If it tries flash first, as it is blocked, it thinks you don't have it, so it turns to html5, which not all videos have it, and then it fails. Sometimes it plays audio, no video. You have to restart the video (rewind), sometimes it works. Others, reload page. > Well there's a "whitelist", but i have my doubts. > > Simpler to turn it off. You can turn it off automatically on youtube. It is simple to do. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlaEcDMACgkQja8UbcUWM1zHGwEAjqjzaoN9nC8g18Qxgn3zERNB tS8lxUPPRKKkYe3NdCIBAIRwZzdna4QWjATSLgV6rIXxz9FhUeQCyAX034nNf62N =ob9q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] 13.1 Virtualbox Stopped Working??? Looks like update killed it, but which? How to fix?
by David C. Rankin 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

All, I don't start VirtualBox often, but I have a number of depositions that I need to convert from e-transcript to pdf (which requires the windows based Reallegal e-trans viewer). Starting vbox today, I received: Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found! Because the USB 2.0 controller state is part of the saved VM state, the VM cannot be started. To fix this problem, either install the 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack' or disable USB 2.0 support in the VM settings (VERR_NOT_FOUND). It is obvious it thinks it is missing the extension pack, but I have never had this problem since 13.1 was released. Checking, I show to have the following installed: # rpm -qa | grep -i virtual | sort python-virtualbox-5.0.4-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 texlive-tex-virtual-academy-pl-2013.72.svn15878-11.2.1.noarch virtualbox-5.0.4-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.3.12_k3.11.10_17-116.7.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.3.12_k3.11.10_17-116.8.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_17-117.3.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_21-121.2.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_21-121.6.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-5.0.4_k3.11.10_29-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.4-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.4-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.3.12_k3.11.10_17-116.7.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.3.12_k3.11.10_17-116.8.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_17-117.3.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_21-121.2.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.3.14_k3.11.10_21-121.6.x86_64 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-5.0.4_k3.11.10_29-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 virtualbox-qt-5.0.4-183.d_l_ocaml.1.x86_64 This is the first time I've used openSuSE rpms verses using the one from the virtualbox site. What/where do I check first to find out why USB has been lost? Do I need to uninstall vbox 5 and try dropping back to the latest 4? Time critical help needed.... -- 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] no resume after hibernate
by jdd 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

"after a great while (went to coffee), the computer was still running, but the screen was back. " similar thing again, probably better fix, bug reported https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960392 jdd -- 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] SSD device not recognized by Leap42.1
by don fisher 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

I receive a 1.5 minute timeout on boot because the system does not recognize my disk drive. In Yast2, if I run Boot Loader I get the following error message. I had to copy by hand:-( Why can't I cut and paste it? Internal error. Please report a bug report with logs. Details: Unknown udev device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1ATA_Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_1TB_SiD9NSAFB28745F-part2 Caller: /usr/share/Yast2/lib/bootloader/udev_mapping.rb:42:in 'to_kernel_device" What should be done? What logs does the message refer to? Nothing appears relevant in dmsg. Thanks Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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