December 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Wacom Graphire USB on SuSE 9.2: X Server crash
by Bernd Paysan 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Hi, I just got a Wacom Graphire3 USB tablet, and had some troubles to get it working under SuSE 9.2 (amd64 edition). The X server simply crashes on loading the wacom driver. Well, obviously wacom_drv.o is broken, and recompiling from the source (that's 0.6.6 then) fixed the problem. Recompiling wasn't easy, I'll send a patch to the linuxwacom maintainer in the next days (the attached patch is to be applied after configure, so what's really needed is to change the configure file; that'll take longer ;-). But to keep other people out of troubles, I've put the compiled binary on the web. http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/wacom.html or direct to the driver: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/wacom_drv.o.gz Please, SuSE maintainers: Put that fix into your update, it's simply annoying that it is still there, when it already was reported here for SuSE 9.1. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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Partition question
by Tom Nielsen 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Hi all, Got a quick question about partitioning. I have a laptop that has XP and Linux 9.0. I need to resize the SuSE partition and make it smaller and the XP larger (giving it to my wife). What's the easiest way to do this? Partition Magic or use SuSE? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 1.805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Any resolution to 8 GB on the Tyan MB?
by Bob Lee 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

There was a thread earlier this month regarding the Tyan S2885 MB, and 8 GB of memory. I'm seeing a the same problem on similar hardware with SuSE 9.2 (2.6.8-24). To recap, problems with peripheral devices with limited addressing capability when greater than 2 GB of memory is present. thanks, -bob

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alsaconf hosed my sound...
by Adalberto Castelo 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

I had my SB Audigy 2 ZS almost completely working (a couple of games were giving me trouble), but I decided (quite regretfully) to manually run alsaconf. As a result I get no sound output now. Even running yast2 sound again, and rebooting. All cable connections were rechecked. yast finds the card and everything. But everytime I try to test the volume nothing happens. No audio apps seem to be working. This is stock SuSE 9.2 64bit, completely patched. The card's IRQ is 185. I'd really appreciate some help. TIA. My /etc/modprobe.d/sound: options snd-emu10k1 enable=1 extin=0x3fff extout=0x7fff index=0 \ max_buffer_size=128 max_synth_voices=64 seq_ports=4 # qnJ_.9jPiZAnlR97:SB Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 The module options are from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt, and they were working before I decided to run alsaconf. These are some log messages I found that could be related: From dmesg: drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 15:26:57 Dec 22 2004 ALSA sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c:234: can't register device seq ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 From /var/log/messages: Dec 28 13:27:07 severian kernel: ALSA sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c:234: can't register device seq Dec 28 13:27:07 severian modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting snd_seq_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.10-default/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko): Device or resource busy Dec 28 13:27:08 severian kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185

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mounting question; mounting /home to a sub-directory on another d evice
by James D. Parra 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hello, Set up a directory /sda/home, a raid device, to house all the Linux accounts and I want to mount it as /home, which is currently on the system drive. When I try to make a symbolic link from /home to /sda/home the users can't access their files since root owns the link. What is the best way to accomplish this? Thank you in advance, James

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gnome-config issue
by Yasunari Tosa 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

SuSE 9.1 gnome-config problem ======================= /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-config has link lines referring to libdb1. Unfortunately there is no /usr/lib64/libdb1.so, but libdb-1.85.so only. here is the relevant part from gnome-config. gnome) the_libs="$the_libs -L${libdir} -lgnome -lgnomesupport -L/usr/lib64 -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lasound -L/usr/lib64 -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lglib " gnomeui) the_libs="$the_libs -L${libdir} -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lgdk_imlib -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lSM -lICE -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lgnome -lgnomesupport -L/usr/lib64 -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lasound -L/usr/lib64 -laudiofile -lm -ldb1 -L/opt/gnome/lib64 -lglib " Thank you. -- Yasunari Tosa, Ph.D. Email: tosa(a)nmr.mgh.harvard.edu NMR Ctr, Mass. General Hospital TEL: 617-726-4050 Building 149, 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA

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RE: [suse-amd64] mounting question; mounting /home to a sub-directory on another device
by Patrick Freeman 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

James, The source permissions are the issue. Check the permissions and ownership on the source (as in ln -s <source> <target>). Symbolic links (targets) are always owned by root, but have permissions of 777. Regards, Patrick W. Freeman Systems Specialist DATAllegro, Inc ... Data at the speed of business O: (949) 330-7699 -----Original Message----- From: James D. Parra [mailto:Jamesp@MusicReports.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:08 AM To: SuSE AMD64 (E-mail) Subject: [suse-amd64] mounting question; mounting /home to a sub-directory on another device Hello, Set up a directory /sda/home, a raid device, to house all the Linux accounts and I want to mount it as /home, which is currently on the system drive. When I try to make a symbolic link from /home to /sda/home the users can't access their files since root owns the link. What is the best way to accomplish this? Thank you in advance, James -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Merry Christmas everyone ...
by Janis Klava 25 Dec '04

25 Dec '04

Andreas, Andi and all the rest, Merry Christmas Janis

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Installation problem on amd64
by Zacharias Spyridakis 25 Dec '04

25 Dec '04

Hi everyone, New to the list, new to suse... I am trying to install suse 9.2 on: CPU AMD 64 3500+ (939P) MB ABIT AV8 VIA K8T800 PRO DDRAM 512x2 OCZ PC3500 433M DVD+/-RW 16x+ NEC ND-3500A BK HD 40GB WD VGA FX5200-DV128 64BIT 8X I get variations of crc error Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount fs on unknown-block That includes DVD1, CD1 and CD2 and all modes of installation (safe bla bla...) I tried to pass to the kernel "linux mem=1Gb" but then I get: "Can not find kernel image: initrd=initrd64" (Any explanation?) I also tried "idle=poll" to no avail. (kernel panic) The USB Legacy Support is disabled - BIOS Note that the system is brand new - untested. That means that a problem could be anyware. Bad memory (I tried memtest86 - no errors). I run my memory sticks to 400 not 433? - I haven't overclock or anything. Problematic DVD - Unsupported maybe? On the other hand debian and gentoo installation media do fine. (that is they load both the kernel and the virtual file system on RAM and run their installers) Do I miss some trivial thing here? Any ideas? Best, Zacharias. PS: I am a couple of BIOS versions behind. But please if you suggest me to flash to the latest version include the reason you think that could solve the problem. Last time I flashed I had to buy a new mobo... --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more.

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Suse 9.2 Kernel hangs with 32 bit Application
by detlef.grittner＠t-online.de 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

There seems to be a severe problem with the 64 bit Kernel of Suse 9.2. I am using Tax 2004, it is a 32 bit application running on Wine. It has its own implementation of wine, which worked with Suse 9.0 and 9.1, but now I had to use the wine package that comes with Suse 9.2. After I had fixed the configuration of the paths, I was able to start the application. It crashes very often, which is not a problem in itself. But sometimes the screen freezes, the keyboard doesn't react anymore and finally even a ping to the freezing machine stops working. The only explanation I have is that the kernel has crashed. Interesting enough I can start the same application with Transgaming cedega and it doesn't crash or freeze the machine. (Not all parts of Tax are working with cedega, so I can't use it all the time.) My assumption is that the wine package that comes with Suse 9.2 crashes the 64 bit kernel while running a 32 bit application in user space. This is a very severe problem and I would rather see that only the 32 bit application crashes, but not the kernel. Without further assistance I can only guess what is happening here. Judging by the poor stability of wine it could be the NX feature or of course any other problem in the kernel. Has anyone similar experiences with the new kernel? Regards Detlef Grittner ------------------------- uname -a Linux linux 2.6.8-24.5-default #1 Wed Nov 17 11:10:06 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux rpm -qi wine Name : wine Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 20040813 Vendor: SUSE LINUX AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 7 Build Date: Mo 04 Okt 2004 21:30:04CEST Install date: Sa 04 Dez 2004 14:11:52 CET Build Host: g242.suse.de Group : System/Emulators/PC Source RPM: wine-20040813-7.src.rpm Size : 51062464 License: LGPL, Other License(s),see package Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mo 04 Okt 2004 21:39:37 CEST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://www.winehq.com Summary : An MS Windows emulator (ALPHA) ....

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