September 2004 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

MythTV and PVR350
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Does anyone have MythTV working with PVR350? There are a number of rpms at:- http://www.astro.uio.no/~oeysteio/apt/suse/9.1-i586/RPMS.olsen/ but it's not clear which are needed. When I try to install the mythtv rpm yast2 says it needs lame which is not available, though I have glame. Are there any plans to support the PVR350 in the next version of SuSe? -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

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problems with x nvidia fx5200
by George Xilouris 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

After the installation of Suse 9.1 on a amd 64 pc with nvidia fx5200 card i have no graphics. I always get the same message apm_bios not present and (EE) Nod devices detected no screens found I have made the online update to use the nvidia driver but i had no success. Any help ? Thanx

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konqueror filemanager problem
by Nicole Steireif 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hi out there! This might be a non-amd64 specific problem, but while having it on my amd64 machine and only being subscribed here ... I'll just try to get an answer here. :o) I use konqueror as filemanager most of the time when browsing my filesystem, but yesterday I encountered a problem never seen before and until now not being able to solve it: I can't change the size of the left hand treeview or the right hand directory content freely any more (I am sure some hours before it worked), it is fixed. This is a bit disturbing, because I can't see deeper directory structures in their whole width. I searched several kde and konqueror config files, tried changing some stuff in there, but no success: the columns remain fixed. Remark: this only happened with my own account (which is in fact the only one regulary running in X). Another existing one with previously used KDE and konqueror behaves as usual, and also a newly 'created' KDE setting with the first use of KDE of another existing account doesn't show these fixed columns. Any hints, suggestions and so on are much appreciated, I hate such senseless restrictions ... Best regards, Nicole -- Das Einkommen ist die Provision, die einem der Staat fuer die Erarbeitung der Steuern zuerkennt

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suse amd 64 and mathematica
by Luis Jose Maia Amoreira 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

Hello, I just installed suse 9.1 for amd-64. Then installed mathematica 5.0 for linux (standard 32 bit linux) but, wen I try to run it, I get the error mathematica cannot determine operating system. and no mathematica... Now, I gess that this is just an environmet problem, since everyboy says that 32 bit intel instructions are understood by the AMD processor. Is there any way one can trick mathematica into believing that it is running in an arbitrary operating system (standard, 32 bit Linux) or any other way to solve this problem? TIA, Ze ______________________________________________________________ Departamento de Física http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt Universidade da Beira Interior http://www.ubi.pt ______________________________________________________________

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Searching SuSE list
by Tony Foster 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

I am sorry this is off-post, but is there a way to search this or any of the other mail lists? I do not want to repost something that is already been posted. TKS in advance.

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DVD writer not working
by Janis Klava 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Gentlemen, After doing an online-update today to the latest kernel 2.6.5-7.108 default, the DVD writer has quit altogether. Insert the SuSE 9.1 AMD64 DVD disk to make a back-up and K3B signals: "Error, no media found". Debug gives the following message: System ----------------------- K3b Version:0.11.12 KDE Version: 3.2.1 QT Version: 3.3.1 CDs still function normally. System is a stock 9.1 for AMD64 with all upgrades. Tyan K8W, Opteron 248, Plextor PX-708A DVD-RW Janis K.

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Advise for Compaq R3240US
by emir limar 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

hi i was considering to buy a Compaq Presario R3240US . Any one had experience with it. It is AMD 64. Does it good with Linux? major problems, any comments wellcome. emin -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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make of kdevelop project fails because of libart_lgpl_2.la
by detlef.grittner＠t-online.de 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello, I've tried to make a kde project with kdevelop 3.0 on SuSE 9.1. I added the line "--with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/" to the configure options and now I get a make file. But if I want to compile and link the program, then make gives me the following error: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -g3 -fno-inline -O0 -g3 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -L/usr/lib64/ -o kde232 -R /opt/kde3/lib -R /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ -R /usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ -L/opt/kde3/lib main.o kde232.o -lkdeui *libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.la' Actually the file libart_lgpl_2.la is installed in the path /usr/lib64/ I haven't managed to pass the correct pass to make. As you can see there is already the option "-L/usr/lib64/" on the command line of the libtool, but it doesn't work. On the other hand I can't believe that the tool wants to link a 64 bit program against a 32 bit library. Can anyone help me getting make to accept the correct path? Regards Detlef

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AMD64, VMWare and USB
by W. Voos 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hello, there seems to be a (known?) problem with VMWare 4.5 and SuSE 9.1 regarding USB-support. It seems to be resolved with newer 32-bit Kernels, after a node under /proc was named back to the kernel default. ( http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?forumID=19&threadID=6044 ) However, there still seems to be another problem with 64bit kernels. This problem looks very similar, the host-kernel recognizes the USB-device correctly, you can connect it to the guest (in VMWare), but the Guest-OS then only recognizes an "unknown device". If I look into the vmware-log, I see entries stating: Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| USB: Connecting device 0xf0010002057c1900 Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| VMXVmdbLoadUsbDevices: New set of 1 USB devices Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| USBGL: SUBMITURB=0x8578bc0 failed -1:22:Invalid argument Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| type=2 endpoint=80 status=0 flags=0 buffer=0x8578bec Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| buflen=10 actlen=0 sof=0 numpkts=0 errcount=0 Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| signr=0 ucontext=0x8578bb8 Aug 27 01:47:06: vmx| USB: Setup issued during another setup action and in the guest-OS /var/log/messages (SUSE 9.1 i386) I see: Aug 27 00:36:14 server02 kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Aug 27 00:36:15 server02 kernel: usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71 A dmesg on the host gives me the messages: ioctl32(vmware-vmx:13090): Unknown cmd fd(106) cmd(802c550a){00} arg(085a47c0) on /proc/bus/usb/002/002 ioctl32(vmware-vmx:13090): Unknown cmd fd(106) cmd(802c550a){00} arg(084363b0) on /proc/bus/usb/002/002 Now, for me it looks like there is some kind of missing compatibility between 32 bit programs (VMWare) and the 64bit kernel. How could this be resolved? I have seen some mapping calls in vmmon (which is a module that is built by vmware for the host kernel), but I guess those where mostly added by the maintanier of vmware-any-any (a patch to enable better 64bit support). Should the fixes go into that module, into some kind of LD_PRELOAD library (suggested in the thread at the vmware-site) or should these be in the kernel itself? There is a ioctl32 which I guess is the compat-layer in the kernel, but either the wrapping for this particular call is wrong (perhaps because it includes a structure?!), or entirely missing. Any ideas? Kind regards, Wolfgang

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Re: [suse-amd64] amd64 (x86-64) support in cdrecord and cdrtools
by Andi Kleen 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak(a)suse.de> wrote: > > > An 32bit version of cdrecord should work on x86-64 in theory. > > Correct for Solaris, not correct for Linux because of missing 64/32 bit support > in the drivers :-( You are wrong on this. We have pretty good 32bit emulation including most ioctls since many years (99+% coverage). In fact there are whole 64bit ports who usually run 32bit programs and 64bit only in special cases (like sparc64 or ppc64). > > Things that need to be planned take a long time on Linux. Solaris offers full > 64/34 bit support since 1997, let's see when Linux will come up with it.... The earliest copyrights in the 32bit emulation code of Linux (for sparc32/sparc64) date back to 1997 too. The x86-64 32bit emulation is only a few years old, but builds heavily on the work of other architectures who do this much longer and is also quite mature. -Andi

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