August 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

You (amd64 PC) and OpenOffice 2.0beta
by zio budda 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi all. I have Suse 9.3 Pro for 64bit. I want to upgrade my OpenOffice version via Yast/You. I select the Gwdg.de mirror, but yast/you does not found the news version of OpenOffice in the repositery, but the new files exists: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.3/rpm/i586/ Example: [ ] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586.patch.rpm 21-Jul-2005 16:12 84.6M [ ] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586.rpm 21-Jul-2005 15:42 97.5M [TXT] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586_de.info 21-Jul-2005 17:07 1k [TXT] OpenOffice_org-1.9.110-1.2.i586_en.info 21-Jul-2005 17:07 1k [ ] OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-471.2.i586.patc..> 21-Jul-2005 16:21 86k .... Why Yast does not found the new version ? I have not the new version installed into my machine: #rpm -qa | grep OpenOffice OpenOffice_org-1.9.79-9.2 ... Please, help me. Tnx. M.

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xine on AMD64
by Alex 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi I'm using SuSE professional 9.3 on a AMD64. To be able to watch DVD's, I compiled Xine from sources with the needed packages. Compiling xine-lib and xine-ui doesn't make any problems, but after launching xine, I have the foolowing error message: Cannot open display "*". Segmentation fault. After I changed the DISPLAY Variable to 127.0.0.1 and exported it, the first error message doesn't appear, but I get the segfault again. The interesting thing is that DVD's could be read in kaffeine without problems, so I think the problem is in xine-ui. Has anybody a hint?? Thanx Al

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OpenSUSE launched - with 10.0 x86-64 Beta1
by Andreas Jaeger 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Sorry for the short announcement. We have now launched openSUSE and released SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta1 to the public. We support as usual 64-bit x86-64 (AMD64 and EM64T) and 32-bit x86 systems. All ISOs and FTP trees have been synced out. The ISOs do not contain sources, they are only part of the FTP tree inside the "inst-source" directory. Please note that the OSS edition of SUSE Linux 10.0 do only contain open source software. Therefore java and depending packages are missing atm. This does also include OpenOffice.org for now. We do definitively not want to lock out the open source Java community, so we decided to offer these with an extra YaST installation source on our server ("inst-source-java" directory). OpenOffice.org does live there also. This package repository can be added in the YaST "Installation Source" manager as additionally source. General download instructions and mirrors can get found on this page http://opensuse.org/index.php/Download Have fun and keep in mind to read the "most annoying bugs" page before your download ;) http://opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs%3Amost_annoying_bugs Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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logitech v500 mouse on athlon64 laptop
by Len Zaifman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I just purchased what looked like a very neat mouse for my laptop. The logitech V500 looked to be what I would like in a mouse for my laptop. However, I could not get Suse Linux 9.3 Pro to recognise the device. (uname -ar reports Linux genetraveller 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) The usb port sees the device and reports it as a logitech receiver, but I cannot get the mouse to work. Is this a known issue or do I need to return the mouse? details lsusb -v -s 1:3 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c510 Logitech, Inc. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x046d Logitech, Inc. idProduct 0xc510 bcdDevice 34.10 iManufacturer 1 Logitech iProduct 2 USB Receiver iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 34 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xa0 Remote Wakeup MaxPower 50mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices bInterfaceSubClass 1 Boot Interface Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 2 Mouse iInterface 0 HID Device Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 33 bcdHID 1.10 bCountryCode 0 Not supported bNumDescriptors 1 bDescriptorType 34 Report wDescriptorLength 95 Report Descriptors: ** UNAVAILABLE ** Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes bInterval 10 -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz(a)sickkids.ca (416)813-5513

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fdisking large volumes
by Harald Milz 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, When playing with a dual Opteron box with a large RAID5 (6 TB) attached I noticed a couple of very strange things with fdisk. Distro is SL93 on the latest YOU level. When a volume (say, /dev/sdb) is larger than 2 TB fdisk does not allow me to create partitions bigger than 1.2 TB, and it does not allow me to assign the remaining space to more partitions. When the volume is smaller, I can assign the whole volume to a single partition (e.g. 1.4 TB). Maybe 64 Bit LBA is the bad guy. We tried two SATA RAID Adapters: - Areco ARC-1160. This one allows you to create volumes smaller than 2 GB with standard LBA (32 Bit), > 2 TB with 64 Bit LBA, and a mode "For Windows" whatever this means. - 3ware 9500S 8mi. Ths controller does not allow you to create volumes at all, you get always the entire RAID as a volume. Very spartanic if you ask me. What's going on here? TIA -- Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.

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Re: [suse-amd64] KInternet problems
by sean-lynch＠sean-lynch.com 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I believe what you need is in Yast, under one of the modem setup screens. It is probably written in one of the wvdial configuration files, but Yast should be the easiest way. Here is the page from the manual: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.3/suselinux-adminguide_en… check section 22.4.2. Good Luck, Sean --------------------------------------------- On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:30:40 -0500 Langsley <bulloved(a)nitline.com> wrote: > sean-lynch(a)sean-lynch.com wrote: >> Kinternet is a front end for wvdial, so when you use >>kinternet your >> are using wvdial. >> >> Check the "idle time" setting. If your disconnect is due >>to the idle >> time, setting it to zero disables this. >> >> turn on the log, this will print a message if there is >>an error >> causing the disconnect, and not just the idle time >>setting, the log >> might point to a cause. >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:53:24 -0500 >> Langsley <bulloved(a)nitline.com> wrote: >>> First, thanks to all who offered assistance with my >>>logout hell >>> problem! I now have things configured correctly.and log >>>out works as >>> it should. >>> >>> Now for the question/s du jour: >>> How can I get KInternet to stop disconnecting my modem >>>about every >>> five to ten minutes? >>> >>> Also, I've read that wvdial is a better program. YAST >>>shows that I >>> have wvdial installed but I can't find it. It isn't >>>listed under >>> Internet> dial up on my main menu as KInternet is. Where >>>should I >>> look for this program (wvdial)? Any other suggestions >>>are, of course, >>> most welcome. >>> >>> TIA. >>> >>> LTR > Hi Sean and thanks for your assistance. I discovered by >reading the log that wvdial and KInternet are actually >one and the same, or as you say one is the front end for >the other. You suggested that I look at "the 'idle time' >setting". I am unable to find such a setting or listing >under the settings for the KInternet program. Is it >located somewhere else? > > Again, thanks for your help. > > -- > LTR > bulloved(a)nitline.com

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KInternet problems
by Langsley 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

First, thanks to all who offered assistance with my logout hell problem! I now have things configured correctly.and log out works as it should. Now for the question/s du jour: How can I get KInternet to stop disconnecting my modem about every five to ten minutes? Also, I've read that wvdial is a better program. YAST shows that I have wvdial installed but I can't find it. It isn't listed under Internet> dial up on my main menu as KInternet is. Where should I look for this program (wvdial)? Any other suggestions are, of course, most welcome. TIA. LTR

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Re: [suse-amd64] Please help -- No sound after kernel upgrade to2.6.11.4-21.8 (fwd)
by Michael Traxler 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello, I have the same problem (after rebooting!), but with a i386 system. alsaconf and recompilation of alsa-drivers and alsa-utils didn't help at all. The only thing which helped immediately was a downgrade to linux-2.6.11.4-20a. Sound works after reboot! System: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 0000:00:0c.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02) 0000:00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 01) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) Sound module is: snd_intel8x0 No Messages in /var/log/messages when sound was *not* working. Michael Traxler

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Re: [suse-amd64] 9.1 to 9.3 disaster area
by Sue Street 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Sue Street wrote: > Gave up - gone to Gentoo - no more non-functional $150 SUSE for me. > > Sue Street wrote: > >> I've loaded 9.3 onto my machine. Is there any way I can go back to 9.1? >> This is because the only detectable improvement with 9.3 is that I >> can tell it to release the USB memory stick. >> ... > > >

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Please help -- No sound after kernel upgrade to 2.6.11.4-21.8
by Sheo Shanker Prasad 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I have a dual Opteron 254 (2.4 GHz) machine with Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885 ANRF). The BIOS is AMIBIOS version V2-05 build The original operating system was SuSE 9.3 with Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005. Because of the security alert from SuSE watcher I upgraded the SuSE 9.3 kernel from 2.6.11.4-21.7 to 2.6.11.4-21.8. Unfortunately, after the upgrade I lost sound capability. There is no sound. The Hardware Info created by YAST detects Tyan AMD-8111 AC97 Audio and gives the following information: I/O Ports: 0xc800-0xc8ff (rw) I/O Ports: 0xcc00-0xcc3f (rw) IRQ: 10 (no events) Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i810_audio is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i810_audio" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: snd-intel8x0 is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd-intel8x0" Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Since the Hardware info says that the the i810_audio & snd-intel8x0 are not activeI tried to use YAST to correct this situation. When I did YAST -> sound it says: "The number of currently running cards does not match the number of configured cards in your configuration profile. Try to restart sound system?" It gives me the option to restart the sound system. Then I selected "Yes". Then there is the reconfirmation that AMD-8111 AC97 Audio is not running. I then request addind AMD811 again. Then I get this message: The kernel module snd-intel 8x0 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IQ or IRQ parameters. I tried to restart sound using Control Center -> sound. But that too does not help. Please by suggesting what I should do to get the kernel module snd-intel 8x0 loaded and to regain the sound. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Best regards. Sheo (Sheo S. Prasad) Creative Research Enterprises 6354 Camino del Lago Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA Voice Phone: (+1) 925 426-9341 Fax Phone: (+1) 925 426-9417 e-mail: ssp(a)CreativeResearch.org

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Logout Hell
by Langsley T Russell 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi all. I installed SUSE 9.3 professional several days ago so I am very new to SUSE. When I logged out that first day after getting everything set up, or so I thought, the only choice I was offered was end session so I clicked accept. This took me to a gray screen with a dialog box for entering user name and password. When I entered those, all it did was take away the dialog box. That is, it left me at that gray screen with no way of getting back into my KDE desk top. so I shut down the computer. When I logged back in, my system opened to that same gray screen with a dialog box for user name and password. When I entered those, once again all it did was take away the dialog box with no way of getting back into my KDE desk top. After several days of trying I gave up and did a complete reinstall. Once the reinstall was complete , I did another logout. This time it offered me the choice to restart, end session, suspend computer, and shut down. I chose shut down. When I logged back on I was once again presented with that same gray screen. This time when I entered my user name and password it logged me into my KDE desktop. However none of the changes I had made were saved, things like my screen resolution etc. So I reset my screen resolution, reset my desired fonts and colors, installed Thunderbird, added a few things to my panel and decided to log off. Once again when I clicked on log off the only choice I was given was "end session". I had no choice but to accept this. Now I find myself right back at that inescapable gray screen. What am I doing wrong and how can I avoid it in the future?! TIA -- LTR }}:{( bulloved(a)nitline.com

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9.1 to 9.3 disaster area
by Sue Street 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I've loaded 9.3 onto my machine. Is there any way I can go back to 9.1? This is because the only detectable improvement with 9.3 is that I can tell it to release the USB memory stick. Now broken are: Eclipse Apostrophes (something in the keyboard / character encoding) now cannot be typed and existing documents display these as an a with a circumflex, an euro sign (how useless is that in NZ?) and a squiggly thing. Character set is ASCII, keyboard generic 101 US English, location New Zealand, spelling UK English. CivCTP Scribus (has vanished without a trace) This list comprehensively contains everything I have been able to use on 9.1. I never have been able to get R going on 9.x and really do want it going, but my Windows machine doesn't have this problem. Still broken: Gnome, R, Radeon display Any ideas on the apostrophe thing? Sue Street

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screen config problem
by Colin Carter 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi, I posted this question a month ago but had to go to London and didn't resolve the issue, but I hope you will bare with me on this one. Over this last month I have been trying, but no solution. I have a new AMD64 laptop from TPG, but TPG are very secretive about the contents of the box and refuse to discuss Linux (though it makes no sense to sell a 64 bit machine with XP ! ) However, XP tells me that the screen resolution is 1280 x 800 at 60 Hz and the adapter is an SiS, model: 651_661FX_741_760_760GX_M661FX_M661MX_M741_M on PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 64 MB of the main RAM appears to be used for the video The problem is that 1. SuSE 9.1 install starts properly (full screen, good quality graphics with menus, edit boxes etc. 2. internet connects and tests correctly 3. downloads latest SuSE updates automatically 4. lots of software appears to be correctly installed 5. system reboots from hard disk 6. requests, and achieves, setup for root and for a user 7. system reboots and requests loggin 8. system then says that it cannot determine monitor characters, and asks if I want to configure manually? Note: up until this point the system has had zero problem with displaying windows, graphics etc. Something in the initial SuSE code "gets it right". 8.(cont) If I configure manually or not the system then jumps into some ridiculous mode of 0 x 0 pixels. Thus, it appears that the SuSE programmer requests the screen dimensions, and receives 0 x 0 and fails to check the values, and simply attempts to use 0 x 0, thereby sending the system into convoltions. I can only switch off the electricty at this point. When I try to reboot from the hard disc everything goes well until the system gets to the loggin screen whereby the screen promptly jumps into convoltions again. Booting with F2 setting the screen dimensions does not help. How can the initial part of the SuSE code get the screen perfectly correct while the latter part stuffs it up? Any ideas on how to interrupt the boot process and set the screen parameters? Any ideas on how to get SuSE to fix this bug? Regards, Colin

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by g-h-c＠web.de 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

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Tyan K8S Pro ?
by Harald Milz 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller? Most of the components will work just fine, I just wonder about the on-board Sil3114 SATA and Intel IOP based RAID controllers. The manufacturer of the 16-port adapter claims Linux support (RH, SUSE) but which drivers are the correct ones? The Sil3314 should work with the sata_sil driver, right? When I installed my Asus A8V board I had to manually load libata and sata-via before firing up YaST during installation, I assume that's the same here. As for the ARC-1160, I have a certain idea after browsing the kernel source of my SL92 and SL93 machines (and googling all along, for sure). The machine in question will have all 16 disks attached to the 16-port controller, I can only assume that it should boot off this adapter too. The manufacturer seems to have drivers available on ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/Suse-9.0-SLES-x86-64 and ../Suse-9.2-Professional-x86-64_Beta. Hmmm ... as it seems, the driver is _not_ contained in the standard kernel tree (as opposed to what the vendor says on http://www.areca.us/news/html/release_5_6_05.htm - "The Linux and FreeBSD driver have integrated in the kernel tree.") Which means my customer is tied to a specific kernel version, and loses the arcmsr driver on each YOU kernel update :-(( Hence, each kernel update would involve installing the most recent kernel source, integrating the arcmsr source code, modifying some source files, rebuilding and praying. SUSE: no support whatsoever. Andreas (Jaeger), any idea how we could help the customer in this case? Anyway - which distro should I be going for? SLES9 makes no sense IMHO because the machine is not certified hence no support in any case. SL92 is slightly more recent as far as the kernel, the rest is pretty much on the latest identical SUSE9-CORE level. Thanks for any hint! Ciao, hm -- Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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