August 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Cant find Gnome
by Langsley 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all. I am unable to find any way of accessing the gnome desktop. It isn't offered as an option on logout/end session. I don't see any way to log into it at startup. Yast tells me that gnome is installed but I can find no way to boot into it. What am I doing wrong? Why can't I find it? Is there some other way I change the settings for things like fonts and default email program for gnome other than booting into it?? -- LTR bulloved(a)nitline.com

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libfam.la error with kkbswitch in suse 9.3
by Argiris Mokios 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, I am trying to install kkbswitch but things aren't going as planned. I am configuring with: $ ./configure -with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ -x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64/ and I get: $ Good - your configure finished. Start make now But when I try: $ make I am getting the following error $ libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfam.la' $ make[2]: *** [kkbswitch] Error 1 The library libfam.la is situated in /usr/lib64/. There is no 32 bit libfam.la. Any ideas? Thanx._ -- Argiris Mokios Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electronics and Computers Dept. Thessaloniki, 54124, GREECE Tel: (30)2310994174 email: amok(a)auth.gr

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RAID
by Chad Whiting 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, I have recently acquired an adaptec 2230slp card and want to setup a RAID array. The documentation for the card says that SuSE will not see the controller as a boot device? I am using SuSE 9.1 x86_64 and want to just migrate to a RAID. I was wondering if anyone had experience with this card, and what would the best way be to migrate to a raid from an existing install? Thanks in advance. -- Chad Whiting

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Hard drive crash
by Hilary Hertzoff 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm not having any luck with google - I suspect it's a terminology problem. I had a bad hard drive crash last weekend. KDE froze to the point that I needed to do a hard reboot (the problem turned out to be a memory stick that was loose). Tried to repair it using a SuSE boot disk and the repair option under install. This made things worse. 2 partitions - /dev/hda1 is a linux swap and /dev/hda2 is a bootable reiserfs (kicking myself now that I didn't make home a separate partition). My current state is that if I try to boot that drive, I get a Grub error 16. I can't get into Grub to edit it. SuSE recognizes the partitions but fails when I try mounting the partition on another drive, repair using the tools under installation or update. I've used a rescue cd to check the disk with fdisk and gnu-parted - they agree on the partitions but gnu-parted is reporting that I have 2 TB of space used on a 163GB partition. I have no clue what to do next. Should I try resizing the partition and hope it "deletes" the extra used space or is there some other way to force a recheck or reindex of the partition. System Details: X86_64 on a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. 1024kb ram now properly installed and being recognized. The drive in question is made by Hitachi but I don't have the details handy. However, I don't think any of this should matter since the problem doesn't seem to be hardware related. Thanks Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY - Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof(a)panix.com by Peter McCarty

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sound quit working.
by Bill Allen 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Recently sound has quit working. I don't believe that this is a hardware problem since it works when booted into another OS. I installed 9.3 recently, but sound was working fine after that stopping at some point since. Back when I was on 9.1, I had done a snapshot of /proc/interrupts: cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 738208 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 379 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 24226 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 71993 IO-APIC-edge ide2 15: 20598 IO-APIC-edge ide3 16: 43548 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, nvidia 17: 2157 IO-APIC-level SysKonnect SK-98xx 18: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 19: 177 IO-APIC-level ICE1712 21: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd When I do it now, I get a much different picture: CPU0 0: 2050795 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1695 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 45384 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 87102 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 34629 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 177: 0 IO-APIC-level libata 185: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd 193: 3687 IO-APIC-level eth0 201: 126505 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, nvidia 209: 22758 IO-APIC-level ICE1712 NMI: 223 LOC: 2050226 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 The sound card has gone from irq 19 to irq 209. Could this have anything to do with my problem? I tried going to YAST to configure it, but YAST informs me that: "The kernel module snd-ice1712 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters." Any ideas what could be going on? How do I change the module parameters assuming I can figure out what needs to be changed? Regards, Bill

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lm_sensors with Suse 9.1 errors
by James D. Parra 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello, After installing the modules suggested from sensors-detect, "sensors" get the following errors; adm1027-i2c-2-2e Adapter: SMBus AMD756 adapter at 50e0 Algorithm: Unavailable from sysfs ERROR: Can't get alarm mask data! ERROR: Can't get IN0 data! ERROR: Can't get IN1 data! ERROR: Can't get IN2 data! ERROR: Can't get IN3 data! ERROR: Can't get IN4 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN1 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN2 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN3 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN4 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP1 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP2 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP3 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM1 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM2 data! ERROR: Can't get PWM3 data! w83627hf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm ERROR: Can't get IN0 data! ERROR: Can't get IN1 data! ERROR: Can't get IN2 data! ERROR: Can't get IN3 data! ERROR: Can't get IN4 data! ERROR: Can't get IN5 data! ERROR: Can't get IN6 data! ERROR: Can't get IN7 data! ERROR: Can't get IN8 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN1 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN2 data! ERROR: Can't get FAN3 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP1 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP2 data! ERROR: Can't get TEMP3 data! ERROR: Can't get VID data! alarms: Chassis intrusion detection ALARM beep_enable: Sound alarm disabled Any clues on how to resolve this? Motherboard Tyan S2882 K8SPro support dual Opterons. Thank you in advance, ~James

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Mouse, KB and monitor pausing in w2100z suse 9.2 and 9.3
by Ryan Biltz 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello All, Like clock work, every 5 seconds the w2100z systems pause for a fraction of a second then hurries to catch up to where it thinks it should be. The result is the mouse stops and jumps across the screen. The keyboard double types a letter(annoying when entering passwords). With glxgears, the gears seem to stop and go every 5 seconds. Any help would be appreciated. We have about 20 of these systems and many of them run suse 9.3. --ryan

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laptop DVD mount
by Mike Roy 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello everyone: I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode on an AMD 64 laptop. The laptop has a combination CD reader / writer and a DVD reader only. If I'm doing a fresh install, the machine will correctly boot from the DVD and I can do the install. The machine can also boot from a CD and successfully mount both music and data CDs and also burn CDs (this machine will not burn a DVD nor am I trying to do this). The problem is when I'm trying to install additional programs from the DVD with YAST. I identify the program(s), insert the SuSE 9.3 DVD 1 and then the machine repeatedly keeps asking me to insert DVD 1 on /dev/hdc (which is already in the drive!!!!!). When burning CDs, the machine asks for a blank media and clearly shows the CD/DVD as /dev/hdc. In the 'fstab' file, the CD is shown as /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss, ro, procid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 In the SuSE suppoert database, there is an entry suggesting a manual 'mount' [auto] instead of the automatic [subfs] mount (fstab entry from SuSE knowledge database shown below) /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Any ideas greatly appreciated as I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing Cheers, Mike

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RE: [suse-amd64] Browser crashing system
by Black, Alain 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

NVIDIA released new Linux AMD64 drivers on August 9th that you may wish to try. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-7676.html -----Original Message----- From: Volkmar Glauche [mailto:volkmar.glauche@uniklinik-freiburg.de] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:07 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Browser crashing system On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated! > > It sounds like a X server problem. If you use any of the unsupported > binary only X servers like ATI firegl or nvidia binary only > driver you might want to disable that. Same problems here - Fujitsu SIEMENS Scaleo T with GeForce 6600 and X.Org drivers. I have not tried the Nvidia binary only drivers yet. Volkmar -- Volkmar Glauche - Department of Neurology volkmar.glauche(a)uniklinik-freiburg.de Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg Phone 49(0)761-270-5331 Breisacher Str. 64 Fax 49(0)761-270-5416 79106 Freiburg -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Browser crashing system
by Langsley 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi All. I'm running 9.3 as installed from the DVD on an Athlon 64-3500+ Venice with 1 gig of ram and a WD raptor SATA hd, and a dialup modem. I'm having an ongoing problem with any browser I use. The result is always the same but the exact cause varies. Sometimes the cause is just trying to open a web site, some time it is clicking on a link in a site, sometimes it is clicking on a link in an email, sometimes it is simply adding a site to my bookmarks. It seems to be just about anything but no one thing all the time. One time a site will open fine the next time it won't etc. The result is that when attempting one of the above mentioned actions or virtually any other in a browser, the screen will either go white, or change to a sort of multicolored tweed pattern, or a series of large orange colored blocks with bits of previously visited web pages in them with only the three control boxes in the upper right hand corner still visible. These remain usable so that I can shut down the browser. However after shutting down the browser I get what ever of the three previously mentioned backgrounds in my email client preview pane with no way of reading the email which should be there. It appears to similarly affect OOo. The only way I can get full functionality back is to either end the session and start another or to reboot. Even there when I click on log out I get the log out dialog surrounded by one of the random, all white, tweed, or block pattern background patterns. This happens no matter whether I'm using Firefox. Konqueror, or Mozilla. Any and all insight will be greatly appreciated! -- LTR bulloved(a)nitline.com

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