September 2009 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] umtsmon problem or strange
by Peter Nikolic 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi . Laptop just updated via zypper dup all seems fine so far apart from umtsmon will not see the usb device an Huawei E220 modem when logged in as my user but if i log in as root it sees it and works fine so it seems a permission problem as opposed to the PPP problem i had previously hints please on what i need to change to get permissions right to use the thing as user . Pete .

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[opensuse-factory] Does Reality Still Say -- No fglrx for pre-2400 Series Cards in 11.2?
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Factory, I haven't heard anything since the discussion in June concerning any hope of having a fglrx driver in 11.2 for pre-2400 Series ATI cards. The discussion left off with the reality that there probably would be no fglrx driver for pre-2400 cards. If this is the case, then any one running the pre-2400 series card will be unable to enable compositing, or will have compositing spontaneously shut down when running the radeon driver. The radeonhd driver is somewhat better for 1200-2400 Series users as compositing can be sustained for all but cube rotation, but with very poor performance and occasional shutdowns. X1600+ cards should be fine with the radeonhd driver, but X1300 and lower card users (most laptop users) will experience problems. The fglrx driver offers a 600% performance increase over the radeon or radeonhd driver and is fantastic with the older cards. I can't recall the exact details, but IIRC, fglrx driver support only extended to xorg 7.4 with the 8-10, through 9-3 drivers packages (in reality that means 9-3 because most of the 8-10 to 9-2 releases were so broken they caused many laptops to reboot on kdm start). So unless someone has made progress on either patching libraries to work with the older fglrx driver or gotten some kind of concession from AMD to release a legacy driver capable of supporting the xorg that come with 11.2 (1.6 I guess), there are going to be some surprised/disappointed kde4 users. If the reality is that there will be no driver, then SuSE should drop a release note (somewhere??) about the potential compositing problems that have been experienced and are not unexpected for users moving from the fglrx driver to either the radeon or radeonhd driver. I think it should probably go in something like the README-KDE4.SuSE. I don't think anybody would ever think to look for kde4 issues in the driver README's themselves. If anybody has any good news on this front, please let us know. P.S., I guess it was time for a new nvidia gfxcard based laptop anyway ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] zypper
by Cecil Westerhof 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

I installed milestone7. (It is the first time I try out milestones.) I can use zypper, but not yast. Is there a reason for this? With yast you have a reasonable clear way to see how far you are with the update. Not with zypper. That is why I would prefer yast. But if that is not possible with a milestone, I can life with that. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer M Cecil(a)Decebal.nl LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- 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] No audio
by Cecil Westerhof 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

I installed milestone 7 on a Compaq Pressario CQ71. I do not get audio with this. The Compaq has an 82801I (IHC9 Family) HD Audio Controller. Is there a way to get audio working? -- Decebal Computing Voor uw ICT oplossingen Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer M Cecil(a)Decebal.nl LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- 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] scpm broken
by Jason Newton 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi there, I get this error message when trying to invoke scpm: SCPM: You have an old SCDB version. Read man page how to update it. I get this error if I remove /var/lib/scpm/scdb/scdb.db : SCPM: could not open database This includes scpm rebuild for both commands. I tried rmming /var/lib/scpm and purging scpm sumf yast2-profile-manager and reinstalling - no go. Please help me get this resolved, no scpm sucks. Jason -- 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] SQLite
by Cecil Westerhof 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

The latest version is 3.6.18. In 11.1 is version 3.6.4. But in the milestone is version 2.8.17 (from december 2005, almost four years ald). Is there a reason why this old version is used? -- Decebal Computing Voor uw ICT oplossingen Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer M Cecil(a)Decebal.nl LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- 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] Has zypper /yast sw mgmt priority handling changed in the past few months?
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Devs, Has the way zypper/yast deals with the specified priority of repositories changed in the past few months? I have several scripts that automate keeping a local repository of rpms where the local repository has the lowest number (highest) priority. In the past, I could leave the repository enabled and run an update and if newer versions of packages existed in OBS or in the openSuSE Update repos (online), the newer versions would be downloaded. Now it seems if newer versions exist online, they are ignored if the local update repo is enabled. It seems like now the lowest number/highest priority repo is considered by zypper to have the newest updates due to its priority even if newer versions of the package exist online. Has anything changed here? If so, where is it written up so I can tweak my scripts to accommodate the changes. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Warning: Don't update to kernel*2.6.31-9.1* from Factory
by Hans-Peter Holler 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Descriptions: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-09/msg00474.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533555 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542767 So please wait for: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2009-09/msg00784.html For those who did it already ( ehm: probably they can't read this, right? :-( ) Have kernel*2.6.31-8.3*rpm by hand (please substitute * * with <flavour> <architecture>) Boot Rescue system mount <your root device> /mnt mount --bind <your root device>/proc /mnt/proc mount --bind <your root device>/sys /mnt/sys mount --bind <your root device>/dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt rpm --nodeps --force -Uhv kernel*2.6.31-8.3*rpm Reboot Good luck Hans-Peter -- 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] Amarok working again
by Donn Washburn 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hey Group; To let everyone know the problem I had with Amarok (any verion SuSE's rpm or source) was caused by /usr/lib/xine/plugins/. It had two version in it 1.25 and 1.26 This was causing Amarok to crash/blowup right after the boot screen. Then of course /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer* had to be changed so that the "other" users/programs (chmod 666 dsp mixer mixer1) could use the sound system. I have already added the user's name to /etc/group audio - which alone did not solve the problem. It is now playing 2.1.90 with all 807 files I have collected. It was not a rant! -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- 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] fsck prblms with latest update, 27 Sept
by Patrick Shanahan 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

x86_64 11.2 M7 kde4 kernel-default-2.6.31-8.3.x86_64 Completed the updates from the build over the weekend and had a zipper notice that *many* of the running applications had been deleted (replaced) and suggested restarting them. There were so many I opted to restart the system. My system has 6 internal drives, 3 sata and 3 ata, and 1 external sata which combine to provide a lot of space. They are formatted ext3, ext4 and vfat. Within this arrangement I maintain a large lvm drive for storing photographs. When rebooting I get the message that an fsck.ext3 has failed noting the lvm drive suggesting fsck the errant file system and dropping to maintenance mode. There is notice that the filesystem cannot be mounted for too many open inodes (from memory, may not be complete accurate). Performing, fsct.ext3 -a /dev/mapper/pictures-Pix-lvm, completes successfully with no errors found. ctrl-D to reboot and I get the same messages and problem. note: I have bypassed the problem by commenting the lvm drive in /etc/fstab, booting, and then removing the comment and mounting the lvm drive. System originates from install of: openSUSE-kde-11.2-livecd-kde-read-only.x86_64-2.8.0 and regular zdup updates since. What to do? What package is causing the problem and does it deserve a bug report? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- 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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