Randa meetings – August 2014 – report from a Geeko’s point of view
2 Weeks ago myself and Françoise had joined the [http://www.randa-meetings.ch/ Randa Meeting] in Switzerland. This event is a full hack-week where between around fifty people, that help to change the...
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Hello openSUSE users! I have used openSUSE for a couple of years and I was really exited when I was told there is a rolling release version of the OS. So I gave it a try on a brand new installation...
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Opensuse 13.1. mit Gnome ist installiert. Alles läuft auf allen Ebenen!!! Herzlichen Dank für Eure Hilfe! Euer Christoph:)
View Article[Factory 20140820] Plymouth not working
Hi there, I just wanted to submit a quick bug report about Plymouth, which isn't working on the latest Factory i686 ISOs I've tried, both Gnome and KDE variants, of the current 20140820 snapshot as...
View Article[Factory 20140820] NetworkManager not working
Hi there, on both the current 20140820 snapshot and the previous one, both for Gnome and KDE, NetworkManager isn't working, at least not for WiFI. My WiFI card is successfully detected and powered on,...
View Article12.3 to 13.1 upgrade w/ desktop issue
Hi, First posting from a longtime SuSE user. I've utilized zypper to update a 'legacy' laptop from 12.1 to 12.2 to 12.3 successfully over the past year. I recently completed updating -- again using...
View Articlegrub2 issue on cloned OpenSuse13.1 VM (UUID)
Hi all I just cloned an OpenSuse 13.1 virtual machine and found out, that it didn't boot anymore because of the changed UUIDs of the disk (LVM-based). Searching through the forums i found that i...
View ArticleOpensuse 13.1 no logging screen
I have been working perfect with Opensuse 13.1 for some time now, and a couple of days ago, when I switched on the laptop I could not get the logging screen. All I was getting was the black screen of...
View ArticleMessaging Applet for KDE?
I've been using Mint/Cinnamon for several years for one reason: the messaging applet. It's the one piece of software that I use frequently, and every day. Logging into my particular email provider on...
View ArticleImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse / Trackballs in 13.1
Since 11.1, this device identifier has been usable to set the buttons for our trackballs; unfortunately, in 13.1 it seems to have changed. Tried to run xorg -configure to generate a configuration that...
View ArticleNo nvidia module loaded after updating to kernel 3.16.X.X
So after I got the 3.16.1.X my nVidia card is not working properly, misconfigured resolution and no dual-view. I tried running mkinitrd and noticed the only difference between the old 3.15.X.X kernels...
View ArticleOpening picture web-links in browser...
Hi, using 13.1 64bit... I can not find out where to "change" the default behaviour when handling web-links html is opened in the default-browser pictures are opened in the installed picture-viewer odt...
View ArticleGRUB 2 not showing up when dual booting + other OS not recognized
Recently I received an old laptop Sony Vaio VGN-C13G (originally it was released in 2006). Added more memory. Now it has 3GB. Than I decided to install 2 Linux distros: SUSE 13.1 and Mint MATE 17. And...
View ArticleTouchscreen support in openSUSE 13.1 / KDE?
I've installed openSUSE 13.1 on an HP Envy 15 laptop with TouchSmart touch screen. It works as a simple mouse-equivalent, but that's all - no multitouch, no click-and-drag, etc. Is there a way to get...
View ArticleHow to hide a user from the gdm login screen?
Hi I'm using openSUSE 13.1 with gnome3 gdm I want to hide a certain user from the list of available logins. I have edited the /etc/gdm/custom.conf and put this is there: Code: [greeter]...
View ArticleNo 3D Accelleration for ATI Radeon HD 5850 with R600g driver since kernel 3.14
Hi folks! I face a problem here... I am using all of the latest packages for Mesa, Xorg, Kernel from Pontostroy's 2 repositories and faced no problems in the past, but since the release of Kernel 3.14...
View Articleapache IfVersion
Greetings! Apache/2.2.22 (Linux/SUSE) on an openSuse-12.3 throws Quote: Invalid command '<IfVersion', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration when using...
View ArticleSSD endurance test
http://techreport.com/review/26523/t...-to-a-petabyte A nice article in which they try to write 1PB of data and see which dies first.
View ArticleAlt + Ctrl + Del again
I want to reassign the Alt+Ctrl+Del on computers of my users to "shut down" bat will not "restart". Reassign the Alt+Ctrl+Del prescribed in the file: /etc/inittab always. But with versions of openSUSE...
View ArticleInstalling Updates, At this rate my drive will be full soon!
Hi, I am new to OpenSUSE. A master of Windows, I have been distro hopping for years, but never found a good fit. With the new era of the Appleization of MS, you know, the Google/Chrome Store, hidden...
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