December 2005 - openSUSE Optimize - openSUSE Mailing Lists

CD/DVD burning or Tommy in Wonderland.
by Tom Cada 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

I had a previous post regarding the inability to burn an audio CD. The following is the results of a 3 week journey through the dark forest of despair to the golden land of success. I couldn't burn a audio CD using K3B on my laptop. I am running openSuSE SLICK with a HP dvd630e external writer connected through the USB port. It had successfully written DVDs previously. Since the burning always stopped at the same spot to the byte, I put it down to corrupted tracks, or deliberate copy prevention corruption. After several (many) failures, I tried burning on my Win2000 machine. Using the internal burner and Nero, it worked fine. I installed the HP drive on the Win2000 box, and it burned perfectly (thank goodness for simulation). Obviously, it wasn't corrupted tracks or a bad drive. Meanwhile, I am googling like crazy trying to find any clue as to what is going on. Not much info out there. The errors were mainly write errors with some 'media not found' or 'bad media' tossed in for good measure. I then thought I would try writing a dvd. Well, you can guess how much success I had with that. My wife was starting to get testy (really testy) about all of the time I was devoting to this search to find the problem. I am starting to doubt that I ever burned data using this system. I finally had the thought to remove the other devices that I had on the USB ports. I had a 4 port hub in the computer's second port with an Epson scanner, and a HP Deskjet printer connected. The errors disappeared. WOW! It looks like one of the devices (I suspect the scanner) was generating spurious signals and interfering the the operation of the burner. My son, who works in a call centre for a large computer manufacturer says that they have been getting calls where a machine would not boot up. It has been tracked down to buggy BIOS where it tries to boot through the USB port to a printer, or scanner. or other such device. My laptop may be suffering from this problem in handling USB traffic although the scanner and printer work perfectly. This appears to be one more thing to add to your list of solutions associated with weird problems. This shows that you should always try to reduce the variables that can affect a process when you are trying to trouble-shoot. I should have known that! Anyway, God is in His Heaven, all is right with the world, and I can backup my data to DVDs again. BTW SLICK is great. The laptop performs better than when I was running 9.3 Pro, and the ability to update, and select additional programs through SMART or KYNAPTIC is inspired. A great job everyone! Tom.

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006
by Christoph Thiel 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote: [...] > > > To start off, we would like to get your opinion on what topics, > > > presentation, talks, tutorials, etc. you would expect from openSUSE > > > @ FOSDEM? And if you would like to deliver a presentation, talk, > > > tutorial? The ultimate goal would be to have presentations > > > distributed equally amongst community members and SUSE / Novell > > > employees. > > > > > > Here are some possible topics, that are basis for discussion far: > > > - presentations > > > + openSUSE in general (what happend so far, what's up next) > > > > Yes, also to give a chance to visitors and people from other projects > > to have a look at what openSUSE really is and what (y)our plans are. > > I would like to hear this from the openSUSE project leader. Sure, we will be around and deliver that (and other) talks ;) Regards Christoph

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Cannot burn audio CD
by Tom Cada 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I have been trying to make a copy of an audio CD with no success. The burner is a HP dvd639e external CD/DVD player burner connected via USB. In doing the burn, it always fails during processing the 16th track with write errors. This is using the default parameters. I moved the burner to my other machine which is running Win 2000. It detected the drive, and NERO was able to successfully do the burn. It wrote to the same CDRW disk that fails under K3B so it shouldn't be the hardware. I have attached a shortened log of the run. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated... Tom.

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openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006
by Pascal Bleser 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Being part of the core FOSDEM organization staff, I'd like to trigger this again, giving a few more details. Christoph Thiel wrote: > Hi everyone, > the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting > (commonly known as FOSDEM, [http://www.fosdem.org/]) will take place > during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, > Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls > for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers > at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of > FOSDEM is free, but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the > event. As a side note for those who don't know the event... FOSDEM is one of the top FOSS events in Europe (for many projects it's even the major event of the year). Last time (2005) we had an estimated 2500-4000 visitors over the week-end (it's a gross estimation, as the entrance is free we don't have any exact numbers ;)), with even more visitors to expect this year (number of visitors has been growing constantly every year). Yes, you read that right: entrance is free for everyone (although donations are welcome, and you get T-shirts, O'Reilly books, ... ;)). While other events in Europe are larger in terms or raw size (e.g. LinuxTag), we believe to have the edge in terms of quality and "being a _real_ community event". FOSDEM is particularely appreciated for not being spoiled by sponsor/big vendor talks/show-offs as well as being highly technical, packed with talks by key developers and project leaders of the Free and Opensource community. As an example, here's last edition's (2005) lineup in the main tracks: Ethan Galstad (Nagios), Marty Roesch (Snort), Gerald Combs (Ethereal), Alexander Dymo (KDevelop), Andreas Zeller (DDD), Benoit Minisini (Gambas), Mathias Ettrich (KDE), Olivier Fourdan (XFCE), Alex Larsson (Nautilus), Marius Mauch (Gentoo), Jeff Johnson (RPM), Stuart Winter (Slackware), Alax Cox (Kernel), Alasdair Kergon (Kernel), Pat Mochel (Kernel), Olle Mulmo (Globus), Alan Robertson (Linux HA), Ken Preslan (OpenGFS) => http://fosdem.org/2005/index/schedule.html We also provide FOSS projects with so-called "DevRooms" (Developer Rooms) where we basically assign conference rooms to various projects (upon request), where they can schedule their activities as they wish (talks, hacking, sessions with other projects, ...). Here's the list of devrooms/projects we have this year: openSUSE, KDE, Gentoo, GNOME, Debian, Embedded Linux, Mozilla Europe, openGroupware, GNUstep, Tcl/Tk, Jabber, GNU Classpath (GCJ+Kaffee+Harmony+GNU Classpath+SableVM+...), Calibre, Ada, Debian (and one I may not disclose as of now ;)). Last year, the talks in the devrooms alone summed up to 140 over the week-end (not counting the 24 talks in the main tracks + 2 introductory + 1). Just to make clear this is a major event and a place to make a lot of contacts as well as to attend great talks ;) > As you may have already noticed (because Pascal blogged about it), we will > have an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) @ FOSDEM and most likely a > booth as well. Therefore, we are in the very early stages of preparation > and would like to team up with you to organize the openSUSE @ FOSDEM > event. Precisely, I think that would be the most interesting option. - - getting information about the progress and future plans of openSUSE/SUSE Linux from Novell/SUSE staff members - - people from the openSUSE community make presentations about e.g. SUPER, SLICK, community repositories, documentation, ... - - serve as a showcase to other FOSS projects and visitors But, and that's probably the most interesting part, we can also make use of that event to make very interactive sessions, where we (Novell/SUSE staff + community members) meet up to discuss future directions, possible improvements, initiatives, etc... We'll have a large room with 150 or 200 seats for the whole week-end (= 1.5 days). The event kicks off at 10:30 with the 2 introductory talks, and from 13:00 on the devrooms and main tracks have their go. This means for devrooms: - - Saturday 25th Feb: 13:00 - 17:00 - - Sunday 26th Feb..: 10:00 - 17:00 We also organize a few side activities: - - key and CAcert signing - - Tutorial sessions (6 x 1h) - - hacker rooms, open for anyone - - a buffet at a hotel in Brussels (good occasion to meet a lot of interesting people ;)) Wireless internet connectivity is provided almost everywhere, with cabled access available in the "hacker rooms" (and in most DevRooms). Also, LPI will organize 4 Linux certification exam sessions over the week-end, at a (*very*) reduced rate (exact price to be announced in the next few days). > To start off, we would like to get your opinion on what topics, > presentation, talks, tutorials, etc. you would expect from openSUSE @ > FOSDEM? And if you would like to deliver a presentation, talk, tutorial? > The ultimate goal would be to have presentations distributed equally > amongst community members and SUSE / Novell employees. > > Here are some possible topics, that are basis for discussion far: > - presentations > + openSUSE in general (what happend so far, what's up next) Yes, also to give a chance to visitors and people from other projects to have a look at what openSUSE really is and what (y)our plans are. > + openSUSE build infrastructure That's a must. Adrian, you won't escape from doing this talk ;))) And for end of February, maybe we could even see a demo... ? ;) > + SUSE Linux 10.1 - highlights and features > - dicussion > + SUSE Linux 10.2 - dicussion / plans for the future That pretty much hits what I mentioned above, an open discussion about openSUSE's future. > + Usability and Documentation > - tutorials > + packaging the SUSE-way This could be held by someone from Packman (or me) ;) > + using the build infrastructure > + LIVE CD construction Or rather a presentation of SUPER or SLICK. > + Customizing SUSE Linux > > That's it for the moment, we are all looking forward to a lively discussion > and a great collaboration. ... which didn't really happen up to now. Cmon folks, there have been a lot of people criticizing openSUSE for "not being open enough", now that's a great occasion to show off and move forward as a community ;) As a side note, every project that has a devroom _must_ send in a schedule of the planned activities. The deadline hasn't been set yet, but expect it to be something like mid January. That means we have to start discussing it right now. Who would be interested a) to come to the event, and attend the openSUSE devroom b) participate and make a presentation or demo (30-45) on something about openSUSE/SUSE Linux c) propose a topic to be presented by Novell/SUSE staff members Send in some feedback. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDj4Xqr3NMWliFcXcRAhTwAJ9qa+jsytj3YLkmBCvxH4nz2P4OnwCfa+bE 9/5Jc+EXekQDV7Ozd21yx4E= =XCrg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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