December 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Toshiba Sattelite Laptop (p105) Wireless Connection set up for Suse
by Katheline Chapin 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

I have a new laptop, Toshiba Sattelite, P105, Came with Vista, and I installed Suse 10. Both are installed and running like a top, except I cannot get Suse to recognize the Wireless connection. I have a Linksys Wireless router and whatever the internal card in the laptop is. I can gather more info if I knew what was needed. The wireless works wonderfully on the Vista side. Any help or walkthru will be helpful. I have been trying to get it to behave, but have not been successful so far. Thank you, Kate -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB floppy disk
by Art Fore 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

I have a MITSUMI USB FDD 061M but when I plug it in, I do not get anything. lsmod |grep usb results in usb_storage 94784 1 ide_core 142792 1 usb_storage hci_usb 33052 2 bluetooth 81764 7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb usbhid 64608 0 usbcore 140676 6 usb_storage,hci_usb,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd scsi_mod 149000 5 usb_storage,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod If I look in Kinfocenter, under usb devices I have UUHCI Host Controller (4) Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp uhci_hcd Serial #: 0000:00:1d.2 Class 9 (Hub) Subclass 0 (Unused) Protocol 0 USB Version 1.10 Vendor ID 0x0 Product ID 0x0 Revision 2.06 Speed 12 Mbit/s Channels 2 Max. Packet Size 0 Bandwidth 0 of 900 (0%) Intr. requests 0 Isochr. requests 0 and under that I get MITSUMI USB FDD 061M Manufacturer: MITSUMI Class 0 ((Defined at Interface level)) Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 1.10 Vendor ID 0x3ee (Mitsumi) Product ID 0x6901 (SmartDisk FDD) Revision 2.00 Speed 12 Mbit/s Channels 0 Max. Packet Size 0 If I look under SCSI device I see the Misume listed 8 times Host: sccsi8 Channell: oo id: 00 Lun:00 Vendor MITSUMI Model USB FDD 061M Rev:2.00 Host: sccsi8 Channell: oo id: 00 Lun:01 Vendor MITSUMI Model USB FDD 061M Rev:2.00 Host: sccsi8 Channell: oo id: 00 Lun:02 Vendor MITSUMI Model USB FDD 061M Rev:2.00 etc wutg Lun: going up to 07. Can someone tell me from the above information how I would mount this beast or where else I could find the appropriate info to do so? Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] possible kernel panic on install attempts
by Clark P. Case 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Here's a strange one. Sorry it's so long but I am at my diagnostic end with this.... I have a system (and 3 other identical ones) that uses a Tyan S2098AGN motherboard, 2.1GHZ Celeron w/512MB ram. I have been running openSuse 10.0 to 10.2 without issues. The board has integrated video but only allows up to 8MB of the ram to be shared. I picked up some XFX GeForce MX5200 128MB video cards (low profile, pci not pci-e) and tried to install. The openSuse installer is gold until it reaches the "Resolving Kernel Dependencies" message at 58% and freezes. (10.3) I tried all version from 10.0 to 10.3 with the same results. I have also tried Ubuntu 7.10, Fedora 8, Linux Mint, many others. Every other Linux distro fails far before getting to their respective installers and I see failures in the text display showing trace callbacks or something like that. I don't remember the specifics and there doesn't seem to be a way to capture the information. I have tried 5 other branded cards and models all with the same results. I flashed the bios with all available updates and nothing works. Here is the clincher. I can install XP and PC-BSD and run them. I can also get Knoppix 3.4 to run (not the newer version). So near as I can figure there is some kernel issue. To add to the heartache, I have tried to disable and set every "safe" setting the motherboard offers with no effect. Does anyone have any suggestions other than getting new motherboards? No versions of Linux of the 6 or 7 I tried seem to work. Thanks in advance.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CPU utilization in %
by williamkow 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Please advise me on how to see the processor performance chart or CPU utilization in % ? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dual graphics cards
by Bryen 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I'm about to upgrade one of my machines and install an Nvidia 7300 card on it. It already has an onboard Intel graphics chipset. (Not sure which version, as I haven't fired it up yet.) While I intend to just use the Nvidia card, I was also wondering if i might still be able to take advantage of the Intel connection and output a second desktop to that monitor? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Software Raid will not include one disk
by Tim Hempstead 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

No, with RAID1 (mirroring) I would only have half usable ... here I'm trying to use RAID5 which means, (as a rough rule of thumb), I should have (N-1)x(size of disk) for N disks, so for six 500GB disks I should have (6-1)x500=2500GB usable. Noting that that is very rough as a 500GB disk is only ~467GB usable anyway due to the way the manafacturers define disk sizes. Of course I could be wrong here but I normally don't expect to see a disk in the spare state in a normal RAID5 array, (but all the arrays I have seen using Linux Software RAID up to now have had a maximum of 4 disks and this has 6) Tim On 12/2/07, Philippe Landau <lists(a)user-land.org> wrote: > Tim Hempstead wrote: > > Hi, I've been spending the afternoon upgrading my home server and I'm > > having an issue with creating a RAID5 array to hold the data. Note > > that the OS is running on another disk and is not included on the > > RAID5 array and that I am using Software Raid under 10.3. > > > > To go into the RAID5 array I have six 500GB disks. Each of these has > > a single Linux Raid unformatted primary partition > Linux Raid partition ? How did you create those ? > > > I was expecting to have an array size ~3TB with ~2.5TB usable. > Hi, with RAID5 only half of that would be usable, right ? > > Kind regards Philippe > -- Tim Hempstead thempstead(a)gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Reply-to-List feature
by Ken Schneider 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I found a newer version of the add-on for Thunderbird for Reply-to-List that actually works. You can find it here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension This is for the latest version of Thunderbird in openSUSE 10.3. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hardware Volume control on HP Laptop
by Michael Smith 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I have an HP dv8000t with OpenSUSE 10.3 on it - Everything is working properly except for the hardware volume controls. I changed the volume control in the task bar to manage the PCM rather than the Master for the ALSA Mixer - this works fine. Using the hardware buttons, even though they display the volume going up and down, do not appear to control the right thing. Is there a way I can tie the physical volume buttons to the PCM control rather than the Master? ~mike No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1164 - Release Date: 12/2/2007 11:30 AM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Help with Raid on 10.3
by Jim Flanagan 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Greetings all, I'm trying to do a new install of opensuse 10.3 on a new server box. I'd like to have raid1 (mirror) set up with 2 drives. I don't know the full differences between md raid and dm raid, but I followed the instructions on installing md raid on the opensuse wiki, using yast to set up the raid partitions. The problem is the system won't boot on the first reboot after install. I originally set all partitions to be extended (not primary) which didn't boot. So I started over from scratch and set /boot as primary partition with all others, swap, /, /home, etc as extended, but it still won't boot. At this point I had enabled raid in the bios for both sata controllers, but not set up the raid volume in the motherboard raid controller. Switching gears I then tried setting up the dm raid in the bios and yast saw that as an nvidia_sometingorother and I believe that would have installed and booted, but I'm unsure whether or not I should use the dm raid or if the md raid is preferable. My mobo is an ECS C51G-M754. This is my first stab at raid, and would appreciate any advise anyone could give. Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Software Raid will not include one disk
by Tim Hempstead 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi, I've been spending the afternoon upgrading my home server and I'm having an issue with creating a RAID5 array to hold the data. Note that the OS is running on another disk and is not included on the RAID5 array and that I am using Software Raid under 10.3. To go into the RAID5 array I have six 500GB disks. Each of these has a single Linux Raid unformatted primary partition; sda1, sdb1, sdd1, sde1, sdf1 and sdg1. When I go to create the array md0 it does not give any errors but when I list the detail on the array afterwards it says that it is in a degraded state with only 5 disks in use and 1 disk as spare instead of all 6 in use. I have tried creating the array with the Yast2 GUI, (on the running system not during the install process), and from the command line using: mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -n 6 -c 4096 -l 5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 with the same result. It also seems that the disk which is set to spare is the last one given so if I reorder the disks and add /dev/sde1 last then that will become the spare instead of /dev/sdg1, (which seems to indicate that it isn't an issue with one particular disk). What I see when I look at the array is as follows: orb:/etc # mdadm --detail --scan -vvv /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sun Dec 2 17:27:38 2007 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 2441912320 (2328.79 GiB 2500.52 GB) Used Dev Size : 488382464 (465.76 GiB 500.10 GB) Raid Devices : 6 Total Devices : 6 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Dec 2 17:27:38 2007 State : clean, degraded Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 6 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 4096K UUID : 837eecb4:28f004fb:0e4f8c91:f584a4b1 Events : 0.1 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 65 3 active sync /dev/sde1 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 5 0 0 5 removed 6 8 97 - spare /dev/sdg1 Previously I had an array of four 200GB disks and all four showed as active sync so that is what I was expecting here too and I was expecting to have an array size ~3TB with ~2.5TB usable. All disks have been checked with the Samsung diagnostic tool and show to be clear from hardware errors. Does anybody know anything about this who could throw some light on why this is occurring and what I can do to correct it? Many Thanks Tim -- Tim Hempstead thempstead(a)gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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