November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 10.0 and Kopete on Scandinavian charachters.
by Erik Jakobsen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi. I use the Kopete, that followed my SuSE 10. Eval. version. But I cannot get the Scandinavian characthers visible. The Kopete is version 0.10.3. How am I doing the trick ?. Erik Jakobsen

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linux powersave Error (CPUFreq_kernel 21)
by Greg Wallace 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I am getting the following lines in the system log Linux powersave ERROR (CPUFreq_kernel 21) Can not ondemand governor, maybe your cpufreq driver is too slow Linux powersave ERROR (CPUFreq_kernel 23) Try CPUFREQ_CONTROL=userspace in /etc/sysconfig/powersvae/cpu/freq Linux powersave ERROR (PM_Interface 231) Cannot create cpufreq objects Well, this 3 year old Dell desktop machine ain't likely to have no such thing as a cpu governor on it. I'm sure it's much too simple minded for that. I tried looking at the powersave scheme I'm using and the only thing that looks like it might apply is the "Frequency Scaling" setting. There are 3 settings, none of which seem to say not to try to do any scaling. I do not have "Allow throttling" checked. Anyone else getting this message or know how to get rid of it? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi
by Greg Wallace 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm getting this error in the log file on a regular basis -- linux modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting sonypi(lib/modules/2.6.11.4-29.9-default/kernel/drivers/char/sonypi.k0): No such device Well, I don't have any sony devices, so I can understand why it would say that. Not sure why my system is trying to use a sony module when I don't have a sony device. I did a modprobe -R on sonypi.so, but that didn't seem to fix it. I'm not noticing any impact from this, but I'd just as soon get rid of that message if possible. It makes me a bit uncomfortable to be continually getting FATAL errors written to my log file. Makes me think it could rise up and bite me somewhere down the line. I did some web surfing for "Error inserting sonypi" and found multiple hits. One person was talking about modifying modprobe.conf to remove the references to it to get rid of the message. He seemed to be saying that that was the solution. In my modprobe.conf, I have two entries referencing sonypi (though not sonypi.so). They are alias char-major-10-250 sonypi options sonypi minor=250 Should I comment out these two lines? Is it really that simple? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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SONY DRU-800A DVD+-RW oppinions
by Sunny 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, can someone recommend this device for using under SuSE? Someone had problems? Thanks -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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Packages
by mozzi 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Heya all I can't seem to find packages for dsniff and snort anywhere, and yes I have looked through all of these sites, http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#External_YaST_… Anyone know where I might find an external YaST Repository for security related stuff? From google it looks like there were packages up to 9.1? I am on x86_64 eval dvd with all updates done. Mozzi

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ic25n080atmr04 harddrive under SuSe 9.3
by Brad Dameron 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Trying to install 9.3 Pro on a Sony PCG-GRT360ZG laptop and it keeps saying no drive is found. I look over boot.msg and it says the drive is found but with a CHS of 0/0/55. Anyone know how to specify the CHS during boot? Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Printer filter to PDF file
by Terje J. Hanssen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello everyone, OpenSuse 10 comes ready preconfigured with a printer filter to pdf file. I wish to set up such pdf filter on another distro too, but I am not which software is used for this setup, e.g Ghostscript or another one? That is, I searching for hints how to setup such a printer filet to pdf file. Rgds Terje J. Hanssen

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Re: [SLE] Suse 10 will not install, GRUB / SATA problem?
by Matt Stamm 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net> Reply-To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:06:23 -0500 >On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:25 -0800, Matt Stamm wrote: >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: Ken Schneider <suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net> >> Reply-To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:13:14 -0500 >> When I boot the install cd and then boot to the hard drive i get the >> "GRUB Loading Stage1.5" message and everything stops >> >> >> >> >Also How long have you been using >> >linux, not necessarily just SuSE, but in general? >> >> >> I've only use SuSE, and have used SuSE since 2002 when I installed >> 8.1. I've been using 8.1 ever since. >> >> >> > >> >One thing that you can try, not sure if I recommended this already, >> boot >> >to the rescue system and make a note of which kernel modules are >> loaded >> >that give access to the SATA drive, if at all, (let us know if the >> drive >> >is available in rescue mode). >> >> Yes, the drive is available in rescue mode. I enter rescue mode, login >> as root, and using the command line I see what appears to be a normal >> linux file structure (/bin, /etc, /home, etc.) >> >> >> >This/these module(s) will need to be added >> >to the initrd modules list so they are loaded during the initial >> >boot sequence. This can be done from the rescue system using chroot >> >to gain access to the installed system as though you booted to the >> >installed system. >> >> I don't understand. I've never used chroot > >Normally / is your root directory, with chroot you can temporarily >change it to something else. In this case you would mount your root >directory to a temporary mount point in the rescue system and use the >chroot command to change to that mount point and have it treated as >though it is /. > >> >> >If you're installed system has /boot on a separate partition it >> >will need to be mounted after the root filesystem is mounted. >> > >> >> /boot is on the same system. Using the rescue system, when I go >> to /boot, its empty. > >Send a copy of the /etc/fstab from the system. If you have a floppy >drive you can copy it there so you can add it to an email. >It looks like /root is on it's own partition. > >-- >Ken Schneider >UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > > Ken, A new twist. I finally got Suse 10 to install by changing the boot loader from GRUB to LILO! Does it seem to you to suggest a problem with GRUB and SATA drives?? Here is a summary of what I did... - normal install failed with "GRUB Loading stage1.5." on initial boot after the CD1 install. - Successful FreeDOS install and hard drive boot. - successful Suse 10 install when I disconnected the 80gig SATA drive and connected a 6 gig drive to IDE2 - Successful install when using LILO in place of GRUB I could install suse using grub when I used an IDE drive but GRUB crashed when installing to a SATA drive. I'm still a little concerning that I can not use GRUB. Should I be? Anyway, concerning my fstat. I wasn't sure if I could send an attachment through the mailing list so below is a copy... /dev/sda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0 Thank you very much for your help! Matt

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using smart for updates
by mikus＠bga.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Does the 'smart' implementation on SuSE issue an automatic "SuSEconfig" and "ldconfig" like 'apt-get' does ? >From using 'smart', it seemed to spend too short a time "under the covers" after downloads have finished for those two "fix-things-up" processes to have been included. mikus

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SUSE 10.0 keyboard issue
by Paul Cartwright 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

in 9.3 my keyboard worked fine. Now in 10.0 the numeric keypad doesn't function and I have to use the number keys over the regular keys, and the += key, with CTRL and SHFT to navigate the messages in kmail. in 9.3 the hardware said I had an: AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard Identifier 262145 Vendor Identifier 262673 ykbmodel: pc104 I have a DELL Dimension system with a SK-8100 keyboard. In YaST I see an sk7100, but not an sk8100, and I have tried: DELL DELL-101 Generic -104 I'm beginning to get a little UPSET. This has worked so well for 3 versions of SUSE, why did it break NOW??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc

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