October 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New machine problems, looking for culprits
by Paul Alfille 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven. Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it. Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D) Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!! Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming. Any thoughts? Paul Alfille

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Bug #105871 High speed USB storage device with low data rates
by Basil Chupin 18 Dec '05

18 Dec '05

It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared. There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.

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help for sight impaired people
by Doug McGarrett 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Some weeks ago I inquired here about assistance for those who have difficulty seeing, as I am one, at present. I am effectively blind in the left eye and have cataract in the right. Some of this may be ameliorated in the future, some will probably not be. Nothing came back at all. The font in K-Mail out-going is about 8 point on my 17" screen, as is the font on the message names for the incoming mail. I have not been able to change this, altho the actual incoming message font I was successful in changing. I do not have access to my Windows machine at present, due to mechanical failure, and this is the only way I have to communicate. Is there no way to make SuSE Linux friendly to optically-challenged users? Please, someone, reply. --doug

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PC running (SuSE 8.2 Pro / WinME) bootloader lilo -> grub
by Mick Higgins 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi List, I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as expected. However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up connection at present. 1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub? 2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5) when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu? I will accept a URL to the appropriate list archive entry or web page. Apologies if this has been dealt with before. -- ** Message sent via KDE KMail v1.7.2 on SuSE Linux v8.2 ** Please reply in the format that this message is sent. ** Thanks.

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Missing applications.
by Fredrik Sjöstedt 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, After downloading the latest version of SuSE (I've been using it since 6.4), I was for the 1:st time missing some of the programs that I usually use. 1) Postgresql server 2) Zope 3) ncftp 4) Scribus I belive that we should add those packages again. For example in the DTP area, we don't have a single program today. If I feel that I am missing programs that should be a part of a distribution of a size like SuSE, I am pretty sure I am not the only one. What do the rest of you think of this matter? Regards Fredrik Sjöstedt

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NTP set up in YAST is loosing time
by Peter B Van Campen 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hi, I have used NTP in previous SUSE 9.X, but on 9.3 I used YAST to set up NTP. YASTs dialog says that it will sync to a time server at bootup. In the past I am sure that the local PC was re-sync'd quite often. I rarely ever saw a difference of more than a second between my "Atomic" wall clock or watch. But now I see the PCs time getting more and more 'off' the longer it has been booted. This is irritating and non-intuitive. The systems should stay in sync with the 'official' time servers. One should NOT have to re-boot just to get the clock back in sync. Is the a way to tell the system to regularly 'sync up'? Has anyone out there found a way to keep a 9.3 system time accurate? PeterB

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upgrade to sempron 2800+
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Yesterday, my machine was a rude pc chips m598lmr, with a k6-ii/500mhz (no comments please). Today I build a new one with a gigabyte k8vm800, to a sempron 2800+ 64-bit (no comments please) they are economics pcs. How could I reconfigurate my distros (SuSE 9.3 and Slackware 10.1) without a reinstalation? Thanks for any help. a. PS--I know there are SuSE 10 and Slackware 10.2 :)

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SUSE 10 DVD no automount
by Andre Truter 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I have installed SUSE 10 on a machine with a DVD-RW device. SUSE do not seem to set up the automount of the DVD device up correctly. The device is in the fstab file: --<snip>-- /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 --<snip>-- But, If I go into YaST to Hardware ->CD-ROM devices, then it shows two unconfigured devices which are exactly the same: --<snip>-- Name | Device | Link | Mount Point | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DVD DUAL GO-W040 | /dev/hdb | | | DVD DUAL GO-W040 | /dev/hdb | | | --<snip>-- I can add one or both of them and it will show link and Mount Point for each: link = /dev/cdrecorder Mount Point = /media/cdrecorder link = /dev/cdrecorder2 Mount Point = /media/cdrecorder2 And an entry for /dev/cdrecorder2 is added to /etc/fstab. But a DVD or CD is still not mounted when I insert it in the device. Any idea what is wrong? Where can I start to look for the problem? Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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Touchpad
by meister＠netz00.com 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, I have a Acer Aspire 3022WLMi Laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. If I install ksynaptic I can configure a lot of features, but I can't make the touchpad recognize a finger tap as a click. If I uninstall ksynaptic everything works again. Somebody else with this problem? If I use YaST to configure the display, sometimes I get very strange values for HorizSync and VertRefresh. If I switch to runlevel 3 and run sax2 the detection works better. I tried to activate the internal modem by loading snd-atiixp-modem, but it always complains: ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2060: MC' 97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00) It doesn't matter wether I load the snd-atiixp module before or after snd-atiixp-modem. If I remove snd-atiixp-modem and use hsfmodem, it works. Has anyone made snd-atiixp-modem work? -- mdc

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WHAT IS EATING MY MAIL?!!!!!!!!!!
by Steven T. Hatton 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I have come to realize that something is deleting email from my inbox on a regular basis. I use KMail, and have used it for years. I am not aware of having made any changes to the configuration which would tell it to delete my email. I cannot find anything in the configuration suggesting that it is configured to do so. I have lost extremely valuable information because of this. I need to stop it NOW! How can I do this? Steve

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