Addressbooks & Groups with Owncloud
I am using Suse 13.1, and have updated to KDE4.12.2, Kontact 4.12.2 and its components. I have raised a problem I had with creating mail distribution lists (or groups in KDE4 terminology) a few timesin...
View ArticleExternal HD permisions
Good Morning I have connected an USB external HD on my PC. I have made a second account in my system but i cannot give permission to enter the HD. I gave the command in su mode: chmod -R 777...
View ArticleopenSuse 12.1 Chameleon in KDM replaced by red text "based on openSuSE"
Hello, I don't know how but today after rebooting my server with openSuse 12.1 I saw that in KDM with the green SuSE theme the chameleon in the lower right position was replaced by a red text saying...
View Articlemeasuring true pixel count
Hello, For a problem discussed in an other thread, I have a display smaller than the monitor size, though looking as full pixel count. my monitor is a full HD 23" 1920x1080. xrander say the print is...
View ArticleScreen wont shut down (Power settings)
My setup: Lenovo thinkpad Edge E145 Opensuse 13.1 KDE fglrx driver installed. My problem.. Power settings doesnt work... If I for example have the setting at 1 minute for adjust screen brightness and 2...
View ArticleTumbleweed package release numbers vs. build dates
I am using Tumbleweed without problems. Thank you for that. However, I have ended up using it in a not recommended and unsupported way. I am confused due to the following: When there is a package...
View ArticleBoot only in recovery mode after update
Hi all, today I started my pc (Opensuse 13.1x64) and I did the recommended updates - for some reason I rebooted and I cannot log in; I noticed that now my system is 13.2 and I can only boot in...
View ArticleSOLVED: Install fails (or, A Pat on the Back for the openSUSE Team)
Greetings, Forum dwellers: Short Story: if you get weird errors during install, check your memory! Long Story: I purchased a new PC after limping along on the one that I got when Linux Mint 13 was...
View Article[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2014:0248-2: important: Security update for...
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0248-2 Rating: important...
View ArticleDodgy Hard Drive - either repair or provide a lightweight damage summary
Hi I recently bought a hard drive off ebay for a free laptop i got (the previous owner tends to destroy her hard drives rather than even zeroing them), but installing ubuntu or opensuse (12.2, ext4)...
View ArticleHelp for a newbie
Hello all, I have converted a PC into a complete Linux box using the KDE-Live CD and openSUSE 12.2. When I completed the installation yesterday, everything appeared to be normal except that the very...
View ArticleCode quality and Code guidelines
Today I like to take you precious time to talk about thing that get so less attention in open source world. I like to talk little bit about QA and Coding guidelines. Many reader who are in companies...
View ArticleHow to Get HDMI Audio Output?
I tried a hardwire HDMI connection between my OSS 12.3 PC and a TV. The video comes through, but there is no audio. The audio from regular TV works fine. I would like to know how to setup the HDMI...
View ArticleBrowsers stop after 8~9 hours of continouos working
Hi all! I have a very strange problem. I use OpenSUSE 12.3 (but it happened on SUSE 11.3 and 11.4, too) and the symptom is after about 8 hours google becomes unavailable (gmail, and the search engine,...
View ArticleAMD R7 250X (HD7770) and 13.1 experiences?
Anyone have the "new" AMD R7 250X, which is just a renamed HD7770, running in 13.1? I was wondering how well it runs with default driver, if the proprietary driver works okay and is easy to install, etc.
View ArticleUpgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1 can break dualboot?
Laptop HP Pavilion 14 (what HP calls a "sleekbook"), dualbooting oS 13.1 64-bit KDE4.11 and W8. Today I had to connect to the internet to access a site that would not work with FF on oS 13.1. The dumb...
View ArticleUSB live media boot error
Dear all, I burned opensuse 13.1 live iso to USB 8GB pendrive using dd: Code: dd if=<isofile> of=/dev/sdb bs=4M && sync At boot, I get some "Assuming write though" errors and various...
View ArticleNvidia card (GTX660M) "not supported"??!?
Hi all, Am curious to see whether anyone else has this same problem. I've got an Optimus based system with intel and nvidia graphics. Bumblebee installed, was previously working. Went to launch a GL...
View ArticleMicrosoft Silverlight for OpenSuSE / e.g. EurosportPlayer
How to use Microsoft Silverlight for OpenSuSE: -------------------------------------------- used by: EurosportPlayer just install the piplight package from:...
View Article[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2014:0266-1: important: Security update for IBM...
SUSE Security Update: Security update for IBM Java 6 ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0266-1 Rating: important References:...
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