May 2008 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] factory to beta3 and other
by Putrycz, Erik 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Is there a simple way to upgrade from factory to beta3 and in the future to the final release? I'm not sure I always will want to live in factory land. Erik. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] modules gobble disk space with built kernel
by Felix Miata 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

/lib/modules/(stock2.6.21kernel)# du -s 60804 . /lib/modules/(my2.6.21kernel)# du -s 538292 . That's a 785% increase in space consumed by my modules over stock modules. Does that happen for anyone building their own Factory kernel? Can a more normal space consumption be made to happen by a mere mortal kernel building novice like myself? What I did was: 1-apply the patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7513 2-zcat /proc/config.gz > .config 3-make menuconfig to add smbfs and change the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION 4-make 5-make modules_install 6-INSTALL_PATH=/boot make install 7-fix the resulting broken /boot/grub/menu.lst -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] update yesterday no boot any longer
by Ralf Prengel 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hallo, after the full factory-update (including kernel) the system doesn t boot any longer. what I ve seen that only a vga parameter is show in the first green bootscreen. I hope the problem will be fixed by using a rescue disc and changing the menu.lst. Or are there other known problems? -- i.A. Ralf Prengel Customer Care Manager Comline AG Hauert 8 D-44227 Dortmund/Germany Fon +49231 97575- 904 Fax +49231 97575- 905 EMail ralf.prengel(a)comline.de www.comline.de Vorstand Stephan Schilling, Erwin Leonhardi Aufsichtsrat Dr. Franz Schoser (Vorsitzender) HR Dortmund B 14570 USt.-ID-Nr. DE 124727422 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] zypper questions
by Ain Vagula 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

- is there any gui applet for new zypper versions (i'm using zypper from buildservice) - is it possible to list new packages since last update (I mean packages added to repositories, not updates) ain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Someone has installed the ATI video drivers in Opensuse Beta 2 or 3?
by Juan Erbes 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi! Someone has installed the ATI video drivers in Opensuse Beta 2 or 3 without problems? I Tryed to installa the latest ATI video driver and the compilation of the kernel module fails. It can be affected by starting with the boot parameter pci=nomsi? The graphic card is a Radeon HD 2400, and I have installed the source and headers of the kernel. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 11.0 RC1 - odd choice of kernel
by Per Jessen 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

I've just installed 11.0 RC1 on an old Pentium II with 384Mb RAM. The installer chose to install an SMP+PAE kernel, which I find pretty unusual? Any thoughts on why? /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] kernel: /dev/vmmon[5826]: host clock rate change request
by Vahis 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

This message is there again when running vmware guest. Boot option clock=pit used to prevent this message in all 10.x versions (and I think earlier, not sure anymore). With versions of 11 it's not helping anymore? -- Vahis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] RC1
by Robert Lewis 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

This time I didn't see the checkdisk option that I have seen before that proves that the DVD is not corrupt. Any thoughts? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] More Dependency frustration! (RANT)
by Larry Stotler 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Here's a list of some of the frustration I experienced trying to install RC1: Unselecting the yast-fingerprint reader deselected almost all of YaST!(qt, networking, etc) WTF???? Sorry, but that's ridiculous. I am constantly frustrated by all of these hardware dependencies that I DON'T have and should have to install: Bluetooth iPod Fingerprint? Like my 1999 Thinkpad 390X has that. irda - I have NEVER used this and it's bad to even install it. I've seen people's laptops get wiped from windows because they didn't know that their infrared was active. When i deselect this, it says it can't install laptop utils. WHY??? Why is this a dependency? Why is ANY hardware a dependency. Some of us don't have stuff like ISDN, Firewire, USB - yes, my Wallstreet powerbook doesn't even have USB so WHY should I have to install utilities to support USB? Granted, if I did get a cardbus USB card I would need it so I can kinda understand USB, but the rest? I've never even owned a firewire device. or an ISDN modem. The default install has TV apps? How about a popup that says - if you want to install your specific hardware, click here and select what you have. Sorry to rant, but I've complained about this since 10.0 was in beta. While hard drives are a lot bigger now, it's irriating to have to waste all this space on stuff I don't have, don't use and/or don't need. I could go on and on, but I'm done for now. I stick with openSUSE because I have used SuSE since v5.3, and no other distro has anything like YaST for configuration and I've always liked the selection that openSUSE offers. But while I not only run Linux on my Dual Core Celeron(overclocked 100%), I also run it on a 500Mhz P3 and a 266Mhz G3 among other older hardware. Having the same distro across platforms is such a great thing. Sorry if I am asking too much. It's definately gotten better, but it still has a ways to go. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] RC1 light and shadow
by Michael Schmuker 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I just installed RC1 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T60, with KDE 3.5 as default desktop. My experience: - During installation, I set the default boot entry to my old 10.3 installation. This resulted in having "default=2" in my menu.lst. But upon first boot, both 10.3 entries (default and fallback) have disappeared, and guess which OS was booting by default... Win XP!!! (OMG!) Anyone else had problems with the installer not copying previously existing entries? - First boot does not use kexec anymore. It did for beta 1 or beta 2 on this machine... has kexec been dropped? - There's a typo (possibly instroduced by the spell-checker in the german translation of the slideshow during installation - on the slide that announces OpenOffice it says that openSUSE ships the most recent office suit (which might be a nice feature btw, but hard to implement when installing from the internet ;) ) - The branding looks super-cool. The cloth-like texture during installation does a good job hiding gradient artefacts on 6-bit panels. Unfortunately, this is not the case for the kdm login screen: It looks kind of weird because the gray gradient shows blocky artefacts and also colors. Of course, I understand it's too late now to change the branding for the login screen. Otherwise, I'm very happy so far with RC1. Kudos to all of you! Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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