July 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] What is Wine-nine?
by Carlos E. R. 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The description for package "wine-nine" in repo "wine" is wine-nine - An MS Windows Emulator Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. You can run your Windows executables with it and write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries. It is not necessary to have a Windows installation to run WINE. Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/wine/README.SUSE. There is more documentation available in that directory. Read 'man wine' for further information. You can invoke wine by entering: 'wine program.exe' wine can be configured by running 'winecfg'. The description for package "wine" is: wine - An MS Windows Emulator Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. You can run your Windows executables with it and write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries. It is not necessary to have a Windows installation to run WINE. Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/wine/README.SUSE. There is more documentation available in that directory. Read 'man wine' for further information. You can invoke wine by entering: 'wine program.exe' wine can be configured by running 'winecfg'. So....what is the difference? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltUbKAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XGngCggPY+IJSqfpOZv1jEoBtyn/C8 e00AnRDym5HrnWFdInGca6lMTQJ7xP8Q =py4T -----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] MythTV
by Dave Howorth 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

I'm planning to install MythTV. It's not clear to me so far exactly what I need to install or what I need to do. YaST lists a bunch of mythtv packages from packman. The latest available seems to be 27 whilst I understand the current version of mythtv is 29. I don't see any particular package that installs it. The closest I have found is mythtv-0_27-setup and its description says "MythTV provides a unified graphical interface for recording and viewing television programs. Refer to the mythtv package for more information. This package contains only the setup software for configuring the mythtv backend." But there is no mythtv package listed. As it happens, I think I do want the backend, because I'm installing a tuner card (TBS6205) so I can record programmes. I intend to then export them over my network to a FireTV box plugged into my TV and running kodi, although I'm open to better ideas. I don't yet know whether I'll want any separate means of controlling what mythtv records on the server. google has led me to the mythtv wiki but I haven't found anything there that fills me with confidence yet. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General seems close but is for the current version, not the old version on packman. google also shows various people apparently overwhelmed by complexity, which is why I'd like to find an accurate set of instructions. Does anybody know of one? -- 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] print to pdf-file?
by L A Walsh 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Does anyone have experience with or use a package(rpm) that can act as printer, and print the result to an Adobe-PDF formatted file? Looking for something like Adobe's "Pdf-printer" software that they used to sell...that would act as an installed printer on Windows -- that you just printed to -- and a popup would ask for the name of the file for it to save-to, but that would run on linux. Thanks, Linda -- 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] grub2 chainloading
by Istvan Gabor 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello: It will be a little bit long to explain what I want to do. I have several linux OS-es on a hard disk. Each OS has its own boot loader installed on the OS's root partitition. The MBR has also a boot loader. This boot loader chainloads the other boot loaders on the root partitions. This makes easy to completely separate different boot menus for different OS-es. For the management of the above scenario at least one of the OS-es must have 2 different boot loader install configurations, one for the mbr boot loader (chainloader) and one for the OS's own boot loader on the root partition. This can be easily done by using legacy GRUB boot loader by making two separate directories for the chainloader and the other configuration. Each directory contains all the files necessary to install and make work GRUB boot loader. Legacy GRUB has command option --prefix which enables to use different GRUB config files for different GRUB installations. Here's an example: To install MBR grub chainloader: In grub shell I use: setup --force-lba --prefix=/boot/grub.chainload (hd0) (hd0,0) # in this case config files in /boot/grub.chainload dir are used. And to install the OS's own boot loader on the root partition: setup --force-lba (hd0,0) (hd0,0) # here the default /boot/grub is used. Now my question: how can I do the same with GRUB2? I would like to have a main GRUB2 menu/loader on the MBR which chainloads GRUB2 loaders on the different root partitions. Since GRUB2 configuration files are spotted at different places (/etc/default/grub, /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, /etc/grub.d/* scripts), I don't know how I could make different configuration files for the different install locations, not to mentions how I could install the different GRUB2 loaders to different locations (to mbr and to the root partition). I would appreciate any help in this matter. Thanks in advance, Istvan ps: Please don't ask me why I do want to do this and please do not suggest that I use one GRUB2 menu to load all of the different OS-es. I want to do it because I could do it with legacy GRUB and I expect that it is doable with the advanced GRUB2 too, and anyway I got used to do it that way. 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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[opensuse] I just found something interesting :-)
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wanted something to capture a video of the screen, instead of a photo. I hit google: "display video capture in Linux". And got this on the first highlighted hit: Best Screen Recorders for Linux Kazam. Kazam is a minimal and nifty tool for screencasting. ... Open Broadcaster Software Studio. OBS Studio is, without doubt, the most feature-rich and advanced screencasting application available for Linux. ... SimpleScreenRecorder. ... recordMyDesktop. ... VokoScreen. ... ScreenStudio. ... Green Recorder. ... Peek. Más elementos... Linux screen recorder - It's FOSS <https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-screen-recorders/> It is a site that seems to list software to do things in Linux with comments and photos :-) Or at least has some. Or at least has one, I didn't search for others. In this case, I found the tool I wanted, kazam. Well, except that it doesn't work, but there are more tools in that list. Trying "SimpleScreenRecorder" next. [...] Yes, that one did what I wanted. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltPi9MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X84QCfYKnRiclKT6EBze3zBEeSZTsH zccAn0HZRlj+kkvROiGHyx/jR6pY7uQT =VG2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] evince in kde/plasma windowsize
by Simon Becherer 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi, using evince in kde/plasma tumbleweed. some questions: 1) sometimes when started, its in very small windows, and i am not able to resizeit by moving mouse courser to the frame and press button and move. only right klick at top frame and selecting resize will change size. (complete enlarging works - but this is way to big for huge screens) how to start at fixed size (normaly right cklick at top frame and then "weitere aktionen" (more actions) "spezielle einstellungen fuer dieses fenster" (special settings for this windows) but the evince window did not have such a dialog. 2) all windows normally have a small black frame around, so if gray window is on gray window, you could see where is the end of the window. evince window did not have this small black frame. how to get a such frame, or how to change color of the evince window? 3) or (alternative) is there a possibility for okular to tell them "rotate and resize printing always to fit paper?) because this is was evince will do, okular not (somtimes it refuses to resize to "a3" at all, and because of manual rotation i need twice as much paper to rotate always for all printers correct..... simoN -- www.becherer.de -- 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] thunderbird in TW
by George from the tribe 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Ok, with my new TW installation, I received the higher version of Thunderbird for email - it is 59.2. Problem - the lightning calendar addon that is downloadable from Mozilla has the highest max thunderbird version that it is compatible with as 52.9, not 59.2. However, this link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Calendar/Calendar_Versions indicates that there is a stable release of Lightning available all the way up to thunderbird 62.0. So, if I upgrade lightning to the highest stable release, I should be able to run the lightning calendar addon. Problem - I cannot find where to actually download that higher stable release. The link I posted there only says it has been released. It has instructions on how to click on the link and go to the "development channel," but going there (which I assume is the same as the "developer home", as that is the only thing that sounds almost like "development channel"), there is no indication anywhere that I can find of the latest "stable" releases for download. So the other option is to downgrade thunderbird to an earlier version, one that is not available in tumbleweed. I don't really know how feasible that is Any ideas? I want to stick with tumbleweed because I can finally use my mouse pad and the graphics look nicer, as well as it being generally smoother and faster (IMHO). -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- 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] Tmux froze and would not refresh.
by Carlos E. R. 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A curiosity. I had to shuffle around some power cables on my home-server/media-center, and instead of powering it down, I hibernated it. I power it back, and I continue doing things on it remotely via ssh. Then I notice that while my tmux session on it responded to create a new tab or switch tabs, the tabs themselves did not refresh. Then I noticed that the X display on the server had frozen, did not respond to mouse or keyboard, not even to ctrl-alt-backspace. The reason was this: 0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851253+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596304] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode 8:0:0xfffffffe, in X [2292], reason: Hang on render ring, action: reset <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851284+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596312] [drm] GPU hangs can indicate a bug anywhere in the entire gfx stack, including userspace. <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851287+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596312] [drm] Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against DRI -> DRM/Intel <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851289+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596313] [drm] drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right component if it's not a kernel issue. <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851290+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596313] [drm] The gpu crash dump is required to analyze gpu hangs, so please always attach it. <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851292+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596314] [drm] GPU crash dump saved to /sys/class/drm/card0/error <0.5> 2018-07-18T23:40:09.851293+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630591.596492] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang <0.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:14.564978+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630596.312747] tracker-store[5136]: segfault at 28b ip 00007f1d84ce0dea sp 00007ffe2971b8d0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.4800.2[7f1d84c7a000+10e000] <3.6> 2018-07-18T23:40:14.586453+02:00 Isengard systemd-coredump 28748 - - Core Dumping has been disabled for process 5136 (tracker-store). <0.2> 2018-07-18T23:40:14.606757+02:00 Isengard systemd-coredump 28748 - - Process 5136 (tracker-store) of user 1000 dumped core. <0.5> 2018-07-18T23:40:18.844004+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630600.589381] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang <0.5> 2018-07-18T23:40:27.855999+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630609.601866] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang <0.5> 2018-07-18T23:40:37.855999+02:00 Isengard kernel - - - [2630619.602401] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang I will not report it, because I took the chance to run yast update, which included a kernel update. And I forgot to capture to file the crash dump. However, what surprised me is that "tmux" did not respond. The contents of the "tabs" froze. The X graphical session had one terminal with tmux running, and tmux could not update its contents on the frozen display... I wonder if next time I can do something to disconnect tmux from the frozen display and regain control of my important tasks running inside :-? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltP2F0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X4JgCfdA+mDCOBgWO+vGGDKgyJrDd7 ATMAn0gFzpoQSWAzaYxqLXkVFvW5wOMU =KvqJ -----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] Flickering display in LibreOffice Writer
by Carlos E. R. 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got a strange flickering effect in the display of photos in at least one LO writer document. The CPU goes to 150% usage while this happens; although edting works it is tiring. It stops as I scroll down. It is so difficult to explain that I captured a video, which I'll upload to google drive: <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-u3TFGyEL_ZL2-aOp5xNjOFzBxNSDb5A/view?usp=…> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltPjhMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Uo+QCfWCCVwhHAX+LCrcix3UiuOQyr LJMAoILXLaIhW74TcgJBK96OumdiYY39 =ULlx -----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] using optimus prime on 43.3?
by Daniel Bauer 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi, After solving the problem of loading nvidia drivers thanks to the help on this list, especially Andrei, I open a new thread in the hope that maybe, maybe my nvidia card can be used one day. I have an Asus GL552V laptop, i7 6700, optimus graphics intel/nvidia running opensuse leap 42.3, KDE It now runs the intel graphics only, in a terrible way with lot of flickering. I cannot disable the intel graphics or make the nvidia graphics primary in the BIOS (there are no such options there and I double-double-checked...). I would love to be able to switch between both cards (intel/nvidia) just as it was possible on OpenSuse 13x using suse-prime. If that's not possible, I'd love to have nvidia activated all the time. I don't want bumblebee, as for my work-flow it is not really helpful. I have installed the nvidia drivers from the opensuse nvidia repositiory and they are up and loaded. But running prime-select (installed from the 42.3 repo) something breaks so that I cannot logout from the KDE session nor shutdown with the KDE menu button. As somebody suggested I changed the display manager from sddm to kdm, but that didn't help. How can I goon testing and maybe solve the problem? What and where do I have to look? Thanks for your time and energy and help! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.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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