| Class | What | Content |
|---|
| HARDWARE | Terratec Cinergy C PCI HD @ OpenSuse 11.1 -TON | in case of missing sound at Kaffeine : edit xine: config Datei ( at user home directory ) - change:
engine.buffers.video_num_buffers:3000
( from before 500 )
becareful: Kaffeine write back entries into the same file - therefor stop kaffeine before editing the file - changes are only considered for the next start of Kaffeine !! |
| HARDWARE | webcam @ OpenSuse 11.1 | you need to install all v4l-libs incl. the v4l1compat.so - to start your webcam-application ( e.g. gqcam ) execute from a terminal: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l1compat.so gqcam ( this preloads the compat library, which is needed for v4l to work in OS 11.1; attention: you need to reference the libv4l directory within /usr/lib64 if running on x86_64bit !!! ) |
| Mail | Evolution - Reset | rm -r ~/.evolution/
rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
evolution --force-shutdown
killall gconfd-2
|
| Mobilephone | Vodaphone - Mailbox turn off fully | dial following number ##002# and press dial / phone - as simple as that |
| OS | Dual Boot - 2 Harddisks | having two HD in one system grub has problems at dual boot - you need to change the file: /boot/grub/menu.lst and change following entry to:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
{ having windows at the first HD in the first partition; otherwise change rootnoverify to hd0,1 or hd1,1 ... } |
| OpenOffice | OpenOffice doesn't start | after Crash Openoffice is not recovering from document recovery ( seems to be endless loop - high processor load - screen frozen - neverending ... ).
To avoid reinstall of Openoffice simple rename / delete following file:
/home/user/.openoffice2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Recovery.xcu
that's all. |
| PRINTER | HP PSC 2200 - is blocked | Even a restart and power off doesn't motivate the printer to take new jobs or copy/print: do a manual reset by:
1.Press and hold the Setup button.
2.Press the Options button. The printer should be ready to print. |
| SERVER | Telnet - Exchangeserver | to find out settings of an Exchangeserver environment: telnet hostaddress port
=> should connect to the server; then try EHLO test.com |
| SERVER | Telnet - Exchangeserver - text connect | telnet webadress[RETURN]
USER xxx[RETURN]
PASS yyy[RETURN]
LIST[RETURN] -> will list all your mails |
| SERVER | new CUPS admin user | You need an Admin-Account for Cups - to be able to perform most of the tasks when browsing: http://localhost:631
1)lppasswd -g sys -a NAME
|
| SERVER | new samba user | You would like to create a new Samba-User at a Samba-Fileserver:
1) create user at the local machine
e.g. useradd [-G group]
2) smbpasswd -a user |
| SERVER | smbmount with new cifs - mount | to mount new samba-shares with cifs - Filesystem you can't use smbmount anymore. the correct new mount command
is:
mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.4/share /d/story -o username=dein_name,workgroup=tommy,uid=1000
for the old:
smbmount //192.168.0.4/share /d/story -o username=dein_name,workgroup=tommy,uid=1000 |
| Software | Moneyplex 2008... @ Opensuse 11.3 | 1) segmentation fault error : install 64 & 32 bit version of libjpeg.so.62 2) service pcscd must not be active -> stop it and/or delete package pcsc-cyberjack... AND read log file from test program cyberjack ( run it in normal user mode !!! ) |
| Software | Moneyplex for Linux & Cyberjack Pinpad | 1. install software from matrica or Opensuse & last recent cyberjack driver from ReinerSCT Homepage. 2. include user in cyberjack group. 3. lsusb search for cardreader. 4. chmod og+rw /dev/bus/usb/xxx/yyy 5. in user-mode execute in terminal : cyberjack. 6. read: cyberjack.xml -> if everything OK -> 7. moneyplex - install driver from /usr/lib/readers/lib... path |
| digital image admin | digiKam | when updating digiKam and/or KDE -> no image display within digiKam anymore
update marble-packages as well solves the problem |
