August 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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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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