April 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Re: GTK interface of software installer in YaST [yast2-gtk] in Factory
by Atri Bhattacharya 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 19:48 +0530, Atri Bhattacharya wrote: > Dear milestone testers! > > 3. A "History of changes" box: that is accessible from either the > top-menu "Extras" or from the "Summary of changes" box. This shows the > entire history of installed/upgraded/uninstalled packages, and > subscribed/removed repositories, categorised conveniently by date (the > full history-viewer in all its glory has not made it into M5, it should > be in factory [5] soon however and you can already try it from svn [2] > if feeling adventurous :) ). You can select a package and hit the > "jump-to" button to switch to the package in the main interface and > uninstall/re-install a removed package from there. This is in response > to feature # 305859. It enables the user to look up a package installed, > say, recently that he/she does not like or finds unuseable and remove it > and the dependencies it pulled in easily. This should go extremely well > if the Unneeded packages group is implemented later [6]. The recent factory sync has brought in an updated YaST2-gtk interface with the history manager now complete feature-wise. Please do test and let us know your thoughts, good, bad and ugly :), on the interface. -- Atri -- 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] Fedora 13 Desktop Features
by Rastislav Krupanský 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Just for info, especially Mono status seems to be interesting ;-) http://mether.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-desktop-features/ -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- 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] 11.2 parted bug?
by jdd 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Before writing to bugzilla, just to see if you know this already demo dvd, openSUSE 11.2, 32 bits on an old IDE disk, HP/Compaq system with IDE/SATA, gparted and YaST are not able to open the disk to change partitionning when fdisk and cfdisk can do very easily. Parted sees no partition. same system, YaST boot manager from install dvd or running session can't make a good GRUB boot, when the recovery system of the same dvd can (seems related with disk order) reproductible. Details at hand if necessary thabks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-support-the-Linux-Documentation-Project/372… http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-fan-page-of-Claire-Dodin/106485119372062?… -- 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] Firefox updated by zypper
by Donn Washburn 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Hey Group; I have again found that openSuSE's version of Firefox is missing functionality. It is missing many file.so or atleast the count of files differs. Download Firefox from mozilla.org, install it and things work. And example of the lack of function is from Thunderbird call up a URL from an email. openSuSE's version of Firefox fails to come up but mozilla's version comes right up and displays the URL that is quoted in an email. -- 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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Re: [opensuse-factory] M5 - post-prompt messages on tty1, & after login
by Carlos E. R. 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-04-20 21:00, Donn Washburn wrote: Please remember to post on-list, specially as your ISP bounces my direct replies as spam.(554). >> Hey Carlos; >> >> Just for a try see if /boot/grub/menu.lst has a "vga=" set. If >> yes change it to "vga=ask" and boot up on it. I had a similar >> problem. I never found the problem but I think it may have been >> a lack of nouveau. Mine would just come up with huge letters >> and then black. >> It has the same setting as it has in the working 11.2 partition, ie, 0x317. Letters are correct, just no prompt. Nouveau does not apply to an intel chip - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkvOA2oACgkQja8UbcUWM1ww3QD/euge0pLe1PmvHqMKJ0512Ht4 dVmHeE8SK/9YeYGzXMIA/Rwk9Kpkvk1aa9FCdhYM2sSAaU1GD/0jamOIv9eg+tYU =zsVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Stopping a module from loading with "BrokenModules="
by Richard (MQ) 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

I recently filed a bug (#597299) regarding a problem with bluetooth / WiFi module vt6655-stage crashing the kernel with an Oops during boot. No response to the bug report yet (still at NEW, not assigned - I imagine the team is very busy at the moment, so no surprise there). So to try to debug this I thought I could use kernel parameter "BrokenModules" to stop this module vt6655_stage.ko from loading. However, none of "BrokenModules=vt6655", "BrokenModules=vt6655-stage" and "BrokenModules=vt6655_stage" have any effect, the module still loads and crashes the system. I can see this by using a serial console. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong / why it doesn't work? BTW: it's not in the initrd (checked /etc/sysconfig/kernel & confirmed by opening up the initrd with cpio to check). Renaming the module e,g, to vt6655_stage_DONOTUSE.ko initially worked and phase 2 of the installation ran, somehow it reinstated the module though and now it's failing in exactly the same way. Now I really am stumped! -- Cheers Richard (MQ) -- 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] sax2 in M5
by Felix Miata 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Does this still work for anyone using Radeon? It works interactively for me, except on selecting to save configuration it exits without saving anything to /etc/X11 or /root. :-( kernel 2.6.34-rc3-3-desktop on socket 462 Sempron cmdline: root=/blah noresume splash=off vga=0x305 3 radeon.modeset=0 With rv200/7500 if after booting runlevel 3 I try to start runlevel 5 without any xorg.conf the system locks up requiring reset button to continue. My display has no DDC/EDID. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/113/saX.log-m7ncd-M5-radeon-rv200 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/113/xorg.0.log-m7ncd-M5-radeon-rv200 -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.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] Seamless Boot Experience for OpenSUSE Factory.
by Egbert Eich 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Seamless Boot Experience for OpenSUSE Factory. ============================================== With KMS (kernel mode setting) and a KMS aware X driver we can greatly improve the boot experience on OpenSUSE and offer the user a seamless transition from the moment the kernel takes over graphics to the login screen of the display manage. Currently there are a few pieces missing on Factory to do this, I've created a project on home:eeich:BootProj which adds those pieces to the respecitve packages. Please add: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eeich:/BootPrj/openSUSE_Fac… to try this out. For the implementation I've looked at the Plymouth project to see if this is already feasable to use. The feature of Plymouth are: * It provides a fully user space implemantation of a boot splash for a system running in KMS. * It supports various splash plugins. * It provides a way to enter passwords duing the boot process. I found some deficiencies: * It falls back to text mode (no splash image) in VESA-fb mode (ie, when KMS isn't active). * It doesn't allow control over the progress bar. * I the password entry facility was working unreliably for me. * It requires considerable modifications to initrd and the bootup scripts. All in all Plymouth doesn't appear to be in a stage where I feel comfortable to deploy it on the OpenSUSE, yet. Instead I decided to check what needed to be done to support "flicker free" boot using the kernel based OpenSUSE bootsplash. Here is what I had to do: 1. Extend the OpenSUSE bootsplash /proc/splash syntax to a. support copying a bootsplash image from one vt to another: echo "copy 0 6" > /proc/splash copies the splash image from vt1 to vt7. b. turn off the progress bar entirely echo "@6 show -1" > /proc/splash turns off the progress bar on vt7. c. finally bump the version number on the bootsplash code so that the presence of those extensions can be checked, The required patch is contained in the various kernel packages in the BootProj project in my OBS home. 2. Add support for 'rootless' X: with these patches the Xserver will start without an initial root background ie. it will use whatever data is presently in the framebuffer. This feature can be enabled with the '-nr' command line option. Patches for the core server and the Intel driver already existed in the Moblin project. I ported them over to the latest version of X and fixed some bugs. The required changes are part of the X11:XOrg package and thus in Factory already. 3. Extend the displaymanager startup script to a. test for the presence of the 'copy' command, and if present copy the bootsplash image to vt7 if the displaymanager is either kdm4 or gdm. This patch is part of the xorg-x11 package and already checked into X11:XOrg (and thus Factory). 4. For kdm4 I modified the name of the background image in the SUSE theme to SUSEBackground.jpg and created a soft link from Background.jpg to that file in the same directory. [Package kdebase4-openSUSE_11.2] The kdm sysconfig script now checks for the presence of the bootsplash image, if one exists, it creates a link from Background.jpg to this image (size 800x600). Otherwise it will restore the link to SUSEBackground.jpg. It also checks for the presence of KMS (cat /proc/fb | grep -q drm) and adds the '-nr' command line option if KMS is enabled. [Package kdebase4-workspace] So far these steps have only been done for kdm4. gdm requires more enxtensive changes as it doesn't allow to configure additional command line options for the Xserver. Also I've not yet found out how to modify the gdm background image. Please feel free to beat me on that ;) Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.opensuse.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N�rnberg) -- 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] [ANNOUNCE] kalsatools to be deleted
by Dave Plater 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi, is anybody going to miss kalsatools? It's functionality is included in it's successor alsamodular the openSUSE name for AlsaModularSynth. Regards Dave P -- 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] [Announce] I want to delete fftw
by Dave Plater 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi, fftw has been renamed fftw3 but it still remains in factory, the only package in factory which doesn't build without it is kalsatools which is replaced by alsamodular anyway. I've submitted updated packages, replacing the buildrequires fftw-devel with fftw3-devel to :- hugin (sr 38323), perl-PDL (sr 38321) and xmms2 (sr 38322) in anticipation. Regards Dave P -- 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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