December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

GRUB with gfxmenu patch
by Peter Clark 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Where can I get the source (either tar.gz or rpm) for the gfxmenu patch used in the version of GRUB either in 10.0 or 10.1? Thanks, :Peter

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Lean & Mean!!!
by bernd 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Is there a way of determining which modules, system services, drivers, and processes I can do without, and dump them so they don't load or start by default? As examples: I'm running desktops, not laptops, so I don't need any power or battery saving apps, processes, or modules running, right? I also am not using a joystick, so do I need the drivers to load??? etc, etc, etc! Thanks, Bernd

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SCSI card compatibility - Adaptec AHA19160
by Lars Karlskov 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, >I can se in the hardware compatibility list that the SCSI card Adaptec AHA19160 are supported by Suse Linux 8.1 but not by other versions. Have anyone been working with this hardware on a SUSE Pro 9.2? Regards, Lars Karlskov Denmark

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Tips for an SUSE newbie?
by kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Well I'm finally making the move to SUSE. I've been running Fedora / red hat for years. I'm currently installing open SUSE v10 on my new IBM Z60m thinkpad. I have a few questions.. I was able to add more yum repositories to fedora, is there an equivelant for SUSE? How about updating, do I stull use yum or are there other, better methods? Any general tips ? Thanks in advance for your advice...

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grub-install
by jim 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

After reinstalling $Windows98 and grub is removed from track 0 of harddrive. How do I get back into Suse10.0 to run grub-install so as to dual boot again. Jim

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Problems with OpenSUSE 10 on iBook - WiFi, sound and suspend
by John Pettigrew 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Having just got a cheap iBook from my work (500MHz G3), I decided to install OpenSUSE on it, and it went fine. Boots, runs KDE, no worry. Score one for the community version of OpenSUSE-PPC! I've used SuSE for years (since 7.3) on x86 but this is my first venture into the Linux-on-PPC world. There are, however, a few outstanding problems with this setup that I was hoping someone could help with. If it seems like a good idea, I will also post the PPC-specific problems to the suse-ppc list. First, my wireless network. I have just bought a wireless 802.11g router and dongle (matched pair from Buffalo) to allow the new laptop to connect to the wide world. The hardware basically works fine (at least, in unencrypted mode, a WinXP laptop can connect and browse; encryption is a whole other story). However, in SUSE, there are problems. The dongle is labelled on the box as a Buffalo USB AirStation G54 (WLI-U2-KG54). YaST recognised the dongle during installation and set it up as a MELCO WLI-U2-KG54 (Buffalo's website seems to call this device a WLI-U2-KG54-AI). The settings are: Device Name: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 IP address assigned using DHCP [the DHCP server of the router is enabled] Started automatically at boot However, if I use any of the tools that seem to be available to find a WiFi network (e.g. KWiFiManager), they say that there is no wireless interface, and hence cannot find the router. Any ideas on how to make this work? I'm fine with wired LANs (at home network level, anyway) but have never delved into wireless before. Second, the iBook won't make any sound in KDE. The hardware is fine - I get the Apple chord when the machine first boots, but nothing thereafter. Again, YaST says that the sound card is recognised and supported, listing card number 0 as Integrated Sound (awacs), with the driver snd-powermac. But sounds (e.g. in the KDE Control Centre) don't make any noise. Volume is set to 80%, and none of the settings in the mixer are at zero. Once more - any ideas about this one? Finally, the iBook won't suspend. If I select "Suspend to disk" from the KPowersave icon in the system tray, I get an error message: The kernel version "vmlinuz" in /boot does not match the running kernel version "2.6.13-15-default". Resuming with this kernel will not work. If you know what you are doing, you can override this in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep with the variable SUSPEND2DISK_IGNORE_KERNEL_MISMATCH=yes What's the best way to fix this and allow the machine to enter suspend mode (I do, BTW, have the resume option in lilo set to my swap partition, following the advice in the PPC pages on the website). Thanks in advance for any help! John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

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problems with a newly created raid partition
by Con Hennessy 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I'm using opensuse 10.0 and trying to create a raid partition. I'm using yast to create the partition, I can mount it and create files in it. However when I boot the partition cannot be mounted. I have to disable it in /etc/fstab and then I can boot. When I re-enable the raid definition and try to mount it, in /var/log/messages I get : udevd[2329]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount' kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev md0, block 2, size 4096) kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev md0, block 16, size 4096) kernel: ReiserFS: md0: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on md0 The definition in /etc/fstab is : /dev/md0 /raid0 reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 and /etc/raidtab is : # autogenerated /etc/raidtab by YaST2 raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 device /dev/hda6 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc6 raid-disk 1 Anyone able to give me a pointer or two in the right direction ? Thanks, CPH

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Bombproof linux wireless PCI cards
by bernd 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Is there such an animal as bombproof wireless pci cards for linux that I can pull out of the box, shove in the machine, setup in yast or a simple setup with command-line and have it work? Bernd

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Package inconsistency caused by SUSE java updates from Dec 20
by Joachim Schrod 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi, On some 10.0 systems, I use YOU for online updates. At 20 Dec, new Java packages appeared and got installed by me. Now, package dependencies are broken, yast2 reports conflicts for *tomcat* and lots of java-1_4_2* packages. This is because java-1_4_2-sun-src didn't got updated, too, and still has the dependency on the old java-1_4_2-sun package. Deleting java-1_4_2-sun-src does the job and restores consistency. Anybody in the know, if those broken dependency will be resolved in the future, and a java-1_4_2-sun-src package will be released? Thanks in advance for any answer, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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wireless HOW-TO
by Paul Cartwright 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

ok, so I got this new Dell XPS laptop, and I installed SUSE 10.0 on it, dual-boot. Now I'm trying to get the wireless card to work. It is an Intel Pro 2915ABG. I've got the netgear router setup and working wirelessly to WIndows, but not for SUSE. I'm trying to install and get ndiswrapper working, but I'm... floundering badly. I was using this how-to: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Suse_Professional_9.x and I got to a page that says if iwconfig says "no wireless extensions" for my card I need to enable the config option CONFIG_NET_RADIO in my kernel setup-recompile and reinstall the kernel. I'm not up on compiling kernels, though I did download & install the kernel-source.rpm package. Can someone point me to what to do next??? either a how-to to add that option to a kernel, or a better how-to for ndiswrapper??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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