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[opensuse] no Xorg in TW with mga video any more?
by Felix Miata 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

http://lordcow.org/Xorg.changelog.txt indicates for Debian, users of gfxcards lacking KMS drivers need a special package to retain suid root to continue access to Xorg. TW's xorg-x11-server changelog in 12 April seems to indicate a parallel package xorg-x11-server-wrapper, but zypper can't find any such package, at least for i586. Am I misunderstanding what's happened? Does anyone have mga video working in Xorg in TW? Log from trying: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-mga-ostw-a865-bad I count 8 (EE) lines. :-( No .xsession-errors is generated that I can find. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] RBAC GUI ?
by Anton Aylward 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

There are quite a number of articles out there about Role Based Access Control, and number of them deal with using RBAC in conjunction with SELinux and enhanced PAM. Every last one of them has a nice diagram showing accounts, roles and activities; or whatever terminology is being employed, and the relationships between them. But most of the articles deal with CLI operation. Now I'm a CLI sort of guy, but when it comes down to this kind of "set theory" work I need some help. it doesn't matter if its those graphs, though using a visual tool can be overwhelming for non-trivial systems unless you have a filtering mechanism, which Dia and Gimp don't really have. Mindmapping tools often do, but they tend to be purely hierarchical :-( So I'm wondering if there is a dedicated RBAC GUi tool out there, one that has various "filter by.." options to manage the complexity. I've looked at this https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/ht… and have a strong "yes... but..." reaction. I'm not sure I can summarise in a few words why I don't think this is better than doing it with hand written tables. Perhaps part of it is that I've seen RBAC done with straight-forward UNIX groups and see no need for ACL. I've always agreed with Ritchie that the group mechanism was mathematically sufficient. Well, OK, there's Apparmor. Any other more visually enticing GUIs for managing RBAC? -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- 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] KDE4 device notifier mount options
by Istvan Gabor 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hello: How can I set mount options for vfat partitioned USB sticks in KDE4 device notifier? In KDE3 mount manager I could set mount option shortname={lower|win95|winnt|mixed} and the file names were shown accordingly. KDE3 device manager remembered the mount setting for every device it mounted. How can I do this in KDE4 device manager? 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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[opensuse] Crontab -e question
by Bob Williams 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

To edit my own crontab, I type crontab -e, which opens my crontab in vim (default editor here). The file contains numerous lines like this # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (- installed on Sun Aug 14 14:29:06 2016) # (Cronie version 4.2) but when write and close the file (:wq), I get this 10:11 bob@hexagon:~> crontab -e crontab: installing new crontab which is what I expect and not alarming. Why all the repeated warnings in the file itself? -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.1.20-11-default Distro: openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.21.0, Qt: 5.5.1 and Plasma:

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[opensuse] Leap421 - play mpeg?
by Per Jessen 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Just a quick question - does Leap421 play MPEGs in e.g. kaffeine out-of-the-box or will I need a detour to packman for certain things? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, 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] bépo keyboard layout
by Frédéric Bron 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi, How can I switch to the bépo keyboard layout? This is the same kind of layout as the dvorak one but for French. Thanks, Frédéric -- 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] Script for Leap
by Douglas DeMaio 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi all, The next release of openSUSE Leap is coming along and we need some help marketing it. One solution that could be helpful would be to have a script like we have with Tumbleweed (https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2016-08/msg00256.html) that produces a list of the differences in version number from openSUSE Leap 42.1 to openSUSE Leap 42.2. It would also be great if the script could list the differences between 42.1, 42.2 and SLE 12 SP2. this will help us publicize the differences in the versions and allow us to articulate the benefits of Leap to potential new users. The scripts for Tumbleweed were written in python, so some of the script for the Leap purpose could be reused. If you would like to write this script for this and future releases of Leap, please please email the openSUSE Factory Mailing List and cc me. v/r doug -- 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] claws bogofilter plugin
by Dave Howorth 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

I expect I'm being dumb, but how do I install bogofilter with claws? Leap 42.1 I have claws installed and I have bogofilter installed. I see there is a claws bogofilter plugin but I can't figure out how to install/activate it? There is a Spam item in the claws toolbar but it is greyed out. I have created Actions called Mark as Ham and Mark as Spam but (a) they don't seem to do anything and (b) I would have expected it to happen as part of some YaST install which I haven't yet seen. Cheers, Dave -- 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] Step by step info on how to connect two Tumbleweed computers via a switch
by Per Jessen 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > Having read much too much literature about the setup of a home network > I am comming to a point that I need a simple manual for my needs. This is surely not a topic for opensuse-factory. > My two computers are both connected through a switch with the router > by cable. I want to have the possibility to exchange data between the > computers on a regular base. Both are running Tumbleweed. The > computers are both physically under my control. Looks like there are > straight solutions until you start reading everything there is about > connecting computers via a home network. Would appreciate help of an > expert. Sounds like you've done most of the work already, i.e. the two computers are connected to a switch. Then you just need to assign some network addresses. As you have a router on your network too (presumably for your internet connection), it probably has a dhcp server, so just configure both computers to use dhcp (the default) on the network interface. All done. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.4°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, 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] bad mouse with 3-head
by Felix Miata 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

In order to help someone out in a web forum, and because I'd never before tried a 3-head setup, I tried to duplicate his setup here, using the DVI out on ATI in PCIe1 and both DVI and VGA out on NVidia in PCIe2. In the process of trying with 13.2, 42.1, Jessie and Stretch, I encountered many obstacles, trying with radeon and nouveau, and with modesetting. e.g. in 42.1 with XFCE, xrandr --listproviders shows both the ATI (normally) and the NVidia (nameless), but in xrandr -q, only the ATI shows up (same as in the Debians). The only place where I got each head to display a discreet section of desktop and without producing a hopelessly out of range logical display density, was in two different installations of TW, one with Plasma (with kscreen autostart disabled) and one with KDE3. In both, mouse response is terrible, but gets worse when the pointer is supposed to cross a CRTC boundary. Doing that causes a delay long enough to make one think the PC is locked up entirely, responding neither to further mouse movement or keyboard input sometimes longer than a minute. With top loaded in Konsole, I see Xorg using much too much CPU. To produce the desired arrangement of screens, I use /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/setup. For use with modesetting driver it contains the following: xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1600x1200 --right-of DVI-I-1 --output VGA-2 --mode 1600x1200 --right-of DVI-I-2 --output DVI-I-1 --primary --mode 1680x1050 xrandr --fbmm 1033x254 Moving fbmm to first line or same line as the rest produces a nonsense resolution (and makes everything microscopic: only with magnification is text intelligible): # xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimen|resol' dimensions: 4880x1200 pixels (0x0 millimeters) resolution: -2147483648x-2147483648 dots per inch Log: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-2016081614xx-email.txt Any suggestions about getting mouse to behave normally? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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