February 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SOLVED NIS client configuration problems on SuSE 9.1
by Lennart Börjeson 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I've finally solved my NIS client configuration problems. Problem summary: YaST configuration of NIS client fails; ypbind never finds NIS server. Resolution: Invoke domainname <yp-domain> before YaST. Why this should be, I have no idea. The problem has been repeated on three SunFire V20z boxes on which I installed 9.1 with default settings. On all three ypbind failed to start during YaST configuration, unless I'd called domainname first. -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304717 ! gsm:+46-70-3394717 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--

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Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA
by jm macip 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I hav e checked the forums and I foud that dong lspci -vv io should find the mem addresses of my pcmcia controller, here it is what i get, can someone tell me what I have to put in config.opts? Thanks in advance Josep Maria Macip 0000:02:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controlle r (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0059 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168, cache line size 20 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at d0116000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: d0300000-d03ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: d0200000-d02ff000 I/O window 0: 00003400-000037ff I/O window 1: 00003000-000033ff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 >>> "Matt T." <Matt(a)Boons.net> 09/02/05 3:55 >>> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:01, jm macip wrote: > I recentlly installed suse 9.2 pro 64 on my Acer Aspire 1513lmi laptop > and I'm unable to get any pcmcia card working, it always says memory_cs > not found. > Any help will be apreciated. > Thanks in advance. > Josep Maria Macip --------------------------------------------------- Andreas, you see, my assumption that PCMCIA does *never* work out of the box on amd64 notebooks seems to be confirmed once again, unfortunately. --------------------------------------------------- Hi JM, this problem is known. Please search the archive of this list for posts with "PCMCIA" somewhere in the subject line, there are explanations. In January I posted a summary, with some workarounds which I did find. In the second half of last year you find several posts with detailed instructions what to do. The main thing is to have a kernel > 2.6.7 (which you should have with 9.2 anyway, and to modify the config.opts file in /etc/pcmcia according to the output of lspci. The default values in config.opts are for 32bit hardware, and do not work with most (or all) amd64 notebooks. The very friendly and helpful guys from SuSE on this list do unfortunately not have the hardware to replicate this. They did give it to their notebook guys, to test it. But these do apparently think that it is normal that the users have to know that they need to modify config.opts on amd64 notebooks, no need to mention it, or to let yast do the modifications for you at install time. I'm not an expert here, I just learned it by googling and trial ad error, so I would appreciate if there is ANYONE who had PCMCIA on a amd64 notebook working out of the box with SuSE 9.0, 9.1 or 9.2, please answer here and describe your configuration a little. Andreas, I think there should be at least an entry in your support data base with instructions on how to do this modifications of config.opts. Also you should either get yast to do it at install time or work with the pcmcia code developers to get it into the standard config.opts JM, please be aware that even after modifying the config.opts many cards still do *not* work. Pascal got some to work by playing with different kernel and pcmcia versions, I got others to work by fooling pcmcia to load serial_cs instead of memory_cs (axen/sagem gprs card), or by modifying the lines value in the cis file of the card (sierra wireless 750 gprs card), all described in my January post. You see the error message of memory_cs in your case, but memory_cs does not exist anymore in 2.6. kernels, it is replaced and should never get called, The pcmcia config scripts still need some cleaning. Sorry, no time now for more, please look at the post in the archive of this list for details. HTH, Matt -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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USB flash disk freeze pc
by Marios K. 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I have an amd 64 3000+ with MSI K8N Neo-54G M/B. I have suse 9.2 with all updates. The problem is when i use my use flash disk TwinMos 256 MB. When i plug it in my usb port suse autodetects and a konqueror shows it's contents. For about 2-3 minutes everything seems to be going ok. I can copy files in it, erase etc. But suddently with no special reason the PC freezes and nothing is working (even the num lock button stops function) and the only solution is hard reset. In my other pc (AMD 1600+, with MSI M/B) which is running debian with 2.6.8 kernel this situation never occurs. I have tried it on both usb 1.1 and usb 2.0 ports, and never had a problem. So, is this a SuSE thing , x86_64 or just a M/B problem? The AMD 64 system is dual boot, but i never really test my usb under windows ;) -- Marios K. <marios_hellas_23(a)yahoo.gr>

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PCMCIA
by jm macip 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I recentlly installed suse 9.2 pro 64 on my Acer Aspire 1513lmi laptop and I'm unable to get any pcmcia card working, it always says memory_cs not found. Any help will be apreciated. Thanks in advance. Josep Maria Macip

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followup to USB issue
by Joe Landman 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

On an hp pavilion zv5000 unit (Athlon 64) running SuSE 9.2 (and dual boot into windows XP), I was having some USB issues. USB storage devices would be recognized without any problems, but USB mice would not. Well, that was almost correct. If, when dual booted into windows XP, I would close the lid, putting the unit into power save mode, and then wake it from that, reboot into linux, the USB mouse now works. Until I reboot linux that is. Then I have to iterate that procedure to get the USB mouse to work. It works reliably as a procedure, but it seems, well, somehow, not quite what we should be doing to get a working mouse. Note also, that FC3 has the same issue with this on this machine, so it is not distribution specific. I suspect that it has something to do with the state that the wake-up routines leave the USB ports in, as compared to a normal cold boot. I could provide lsusb in both states, and any other info that would make sense. Thanks. Joe -- Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman(a)scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com

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Problems after update
by Chad Whiting 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hello, I have a problem after updating yesterday with YOU. Now my machine will boot up but when xdm starts it goes to a black screen and stays, can't switch tty's, tried coming up in init 3 and sax2 does the same thing when started. Same result after reinstalling the Nvidia drivers. *$##*#&# :-) Everything has been fine the last few updates I've done. I am using an Nvidia Geforce 5700 I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this? All I got on the update was the usual message about rebooting the machine to be able to load up any needed drivers after the update. Please help. -- Chad W

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pthreads in SuSE Linux
by Mikhail Kuzminsky 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I have some object module - machine.o (ELF 64 bit LSB relocatable) which is placed in ltcp-linda.a library and is used by some application which use Linda parallelization tools. nm -g says, that machine.o has unresolved references (U) to pthread_create, pthread_kill and few other pthreads modules. glibc-2.3.2-90 (SuSE 9.0) contains /lib64/libthread.so.0 which must contain the corresponding pthreads entries. This library is included, of course, in ld.so.cache. But if I try to compile and build the simplest Linda-based program (flc fhello.fl w/Portland pgf77 used) - I receive the messages that the references from machine.o (from ltcp-linda.a) to pthread_create, pthread_kill and pthread_sigmask are not resolved :-( Sorry, what should I do to resolve this references to pthreads routines ? May be I must build static pthreads library instead of dynamic *.so - library ? Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow

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Re: [suse-amd64] Acroread 5.010-4.1 Broken
by Janis Klava 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

It screws up when clicking on a pdf file in Konqueror, using the "open with" works fine. Janis On Tuesday 08 February 2005 13:22, you wrote: > Bit late but anyways, are you sure its not using Konquerer > and the embedded Acrobat reader. I've picked that up as a > problem. Try opening it standalone, or using "Open With" > command. > > gw01f > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:47:57 +0200 > > Janis Klava <jklava(a)lettux.lv> wrote: > > On Sunday 23 January 2005 21:32, Scott Leighton wrote: > > > On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:20 am, Scott Leighton > > > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 23 January 2005 11:14 am, Janis Klava > > > > wrote: > > > > > After doing a YOU update, tried Acroread but it > > > > still does not work. I > > > > > > > had this same problem earlier, posting 10 Jan., > > > > "Adobe pdf viewer". > > > > > > > Opening a pdf file defaults to +260 magnification > > > > and about 1/4 of the > > > > > > > page is lost on the right hand margin. > > > > > > > > > > There is no vertical or horizontal scroll bar. > > > > > > > > > > My previous fix for this was to revert to Acroread > > > > 5.09-6 which worked > > > > > > > fine. > > > > > > > > > > I have again installed Acroread 5.09-6 and it > > > > works. > > > > > > You might try renaming the ~/.acrobat/prefs file > > > > to prefs.old and > > > > > > see if the newer version works ok then. > > > > > > > > I have no idea if that will work, but it might be > > > > worth a try. > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > I should add that acroread 5.010-4.1 is working fine > > > > here on > > > > > 9.2, no symptoms like you describe. > > > > > > Scott > > > > I am running a completely stock 9.2, only YOU updates and > > no outside > > programmes so I don't think that it is outside > > interference. System is > > Opteron on Tyan K8W so nothing outlandish there either. > > > > Janis > > > > > -- > > > POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier > > > http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ > > > Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default x86_64 > > > > -- > > Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe > > For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Problems after update
by Chad Whiting 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hello, Sorry, I am using the x86_64 version of SuSE 9.1 and this happened after doing the most recent update for this. -- Chad W

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VIA Sound problems after kernel upgrade
by Alexandre Moutinho Santos 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I have another problem with my Asus A8V board and SuSE 9.2 x86-64: with the kernel version that comes in the DVD the sound card is detected correctly and everything works perfect. After upgrading the kernel, every time I boot my workstation I have to go to a console, restart alsasound and then restart the X server. Without this I have no sound - while booting have the message that says that the sound module is already installed.... Any solution for this? Alex

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