January 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SuSEconfig -module fonts
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

SuSEconfig has been gone for quite a while. I used to use it to add fonts via scripts. What is the correct method to add fonts (.ttf) these days? They are not in an RPM. And I do not want to run an interactive program. I googled a bit and did not see anything that addressed this. Bad search words, I guess. I don't know what I am looking for is called... -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner not working with 42.2
by James Knott 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

I have an Epson scanner which worked until I upgraded to openSUSE 42.2, from 13.1. It no longer works. When I try to configure it in Yast Hardware, I see an Epson Scanner that's not configured and plustek, but it says "No scanner recognized by this driver". Suggestions? tnx jk -- 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: I'm not sure "-pae" is worth it
by Per Jessen 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

> On 01/19/2017 02:49 AM, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> With that size memory, it would be running a PAE kernel. > > OMG! > The PAE mechanism involves a mapping table for the 32-bit system to > address more than 4G. I'll leave aside the issue of why anyone might > need for than 4G when many of us run excellent systems in that or > less. Leaving out HPC apps, here are a few reasons - virtual hosting, databases, web- and mail-servers. Virtual hosting is probably the one real reason for 32Gb and more. Are there any desktop apps that would benefit? Photo editing? > I believe Per Jensen mentioned a server that had been up for over 4 > years with just 2G. Yup. > I'm sure that more than 4G I have in my 64-bit desktop would be nice I've got 4Gb in my main workstation, the big memory consumers are firefix, Xorg, thunderbird, and libreoffice. > If I were corporate and the LAN/SAN were the limit I'd see about > gigabit networking or optical networking. But then again, all my > machines, except for a few from the Closet of Anxieties with 800Mhz > 32-bit/1GRAM are 64-bit. For office networks, 1GigE has long been the norm, quite possibly moving towards 10GigE in some areas. For a SAN, 32Gbit is probably the norm now, 8G fibre is slowly coming on to the 2nd hand market. > But "-pae"? > Even so, a processes address space remains at 32-bits, meaning it can > only access a maximum of 4GB of memory. The OS however can access a > 64GB address space, allocating 4GB chunks to processes. In the business, we have one system left running with a PAE kernel - it's a mailserver with 12Gb of memory, nothing special. We don't need lots of memory per process, just lots of them. (imap users). > If this were critical, if this were corporate, I'd seriously look at > getting a new mobo and a 64-but processor. In our case, sure, but there wouldn't be a lot gained. That mailserver just keeps going and going, when it does eventually die, we'll replace it. There are two things that speak for an immediate upgrade - a) availability of spareparts b) electricity savings > As a manager, I look at this way: the cost of time (that is, salary or > consultant's fee) flutzing around with this, ongoing, There isn't any more futzing around than with any other box. If you want PAE, just install the right kernel, that's all. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-4.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, 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] firefox ESR 17 broken with latest updates on 42.1
by Felix Miata 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

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[opensuse] Mouse out of control under Tumbleweed
by Terry Eck 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

I have installed Tumbleweed for the second time. First time I did not have a problem with the mouse but I lost access to the internet and the system would not reboot hence the reinstall. I also have access to windows 10 on the same machine so I don't think it is a hardware problem. The basic problem is the mouse is erratic in that it leaves pointer trails on the desktop as well as flashing when I try to detect the edge of a window to expand it. I'm hoping someone can point be to a solution. I have no idea if it is a video driver problem or what. Thanks for any help. Up to this point openSUSE was quite reliable. Regards, Terry -- 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] Opensuse 42.2 and Python 3.6
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

All Does anyone know when or if the repos will be updated to 3.6? -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes _.._ _ ."\__/"./`_\ _/__<__>__\/ jgs `"/_/""""\_\\ Adolph & Sharon Weidanz PADI Staff IDC Instructor/OWSI 283315 -- 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] One Click Install
by John Andersen 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Any clues what I have to change to get Opensuse 1 Click Installs to work with Chrome/Chromium/Vivaldi? If I don't launch them with firefox they just spew some xml and fail. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- 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] connecting to samba folders on a network
by george from the tribe 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

I recently took up a position volunteering at an international school 3 times a week. All the staff here are volunteers, and as a result, we often have some holes in our knowledge. Since I began using openSUSE 5 years ago (my first and only Linux distribution that I experimented with) I have learned quite a bit, but some things were never necessary to learn. For example, Samba shares. I was not setting up an internal server in my house, so I didn't have any need to explore how to set up shared folders and drives. At the school where I volunteer, I work in the engineering department, not the IT department. So even though I am just a user of the network and not a sysadmin, I asked if my workstation could be openSUSE instead of windows, and they agreed, no problem, as long as I can for the most part work out all my own technical problems, since they mostly only know windows. The system here is like this. A few years ago we had someone come through in the IT department that set up the school's network on a linux server, CentOS, and set up samba folders for sharing on the network. It still runs, and those are all the shared drives on the network. As part of the engineering department, I need to access these shared drives and read the files, in particular the drawing files. When I set up my pc as a client for reading samba shares (I allowed samba services for both a server and a client in the firewall), I went into yast -> windows domain membership, and then set up the domain. Then I went to dolphin, clicked on the network icon, and searched through the samba shared folders. We found some of the network folders that came up, but not all. I had an IT guy come here and we were able to manually navigate to the network folder I need, which has the format of: smb://administrator username@servername/path With that format, I am able to access the folders, but only in dolphin and only by manually entering the long navigation path. I tried to set up a network drive with the network folder wizard in dolphin, but it is very difficult to figure out what goes in what field, and which part of the wizard to use. Do I connect via FTP? I read somewhere that samba clients on linux machines can connect to samba folders via ftp. Do I connect instead as if the samba folders are emulating a Microsoft Windows Network drive? In that one, it has fields for entering name, server, and folder. In the FTP, it has fields for entering name, user, server, port, and folder. I tried both, with various combinations of username, server name, path, etc. in the appropriate fields, and it is never able to create a network folder. However, I can still access the network folder in dolphin if I manually enter the folder string, as I noted above. BTW, I am using Leap 42.2 and KDE. George -- 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] Update on erratic mouse movement
by Terry Eck 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

It turns out that when I use IceWM instead of Plasma 5 the mouse problem goes away. I'm hoping someone can point me towards a solution. It has to be related to Plasma 5. Are there any controls with regard to the mouse under this window manager? In a prior post I had given some information about my system obtained for Yast. Regards, Terry -- 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] SAS/SCSI Hotplug
by Paul Groves 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi, I have a couple of external tape drives. one SAS and the other SCSI. I do not wish to have these powered on at all times because they have very loud fans. I can turn them on and off easily as the drives have a power switch I can flip on when required, but the drives are not automatically detected again until reboot. lsscsi does not show them but after reboot it does. How can I configure the system to automatically re-detect these drives? Or perhaps a command that can be run before the backup script starts? Using openSUSE 42.1 x64 Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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