July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] swap space question in 9.3 install
by Greg Wallace 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

On Sunday, July 17, 2005 @ 10:45 PM I wrote: >On Sunday, July 17, 2005 @ 7:06 PM, Nick Jones wrote: >>> > Sony Lies. Thats the max they sold it with, so as >>> > far >>> > as they are concerned its the max. Its well known >>> > their machines take more memory than they say. >>> > >>> > Go to crucial.com and enter the machine model, and >>> > get a quote. >>Firstly, let me apologize to all for the empty post. Lesson learned: don't >>use a Yahoo account on this list, Yahoo accounts suck for lists. I've >>changed email addresses. >>Anyhoo, Crucial doesn't seem to sell RDRAM memory. The cheapest I can find >>for a 128mb stick is $44 at Newegg. Still not worth it. According to >>Sony's website, the max memory this machine can take is 512MB (4 x 128MB >>sticks) so is that figure wrong? Also, I think I figured out my problem, >>SUSE wants the boot partition to be at the beginning of the disk, but >>right now the swap space is there. I think I'll boot Knoppix back up and >>put an ext3 partition at the beginning of the disk and put the swap after >>that. Unless I can do it with the 9.3 network install disk... >>Thanks >>-Nick >The first partition on my SuSE Linux box is a swap partition. >Greg Wallace I think you always want your swap partition on high disk. One disk revolution moves more data on the outer part of the disk than on the inner part. Like being on the edge of a merry go-around instead of at the center, it's moving faster. For swapping in and out of memory, I would think that would be the best setup. Greg W

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Re: [SLE] swap space question in 9.3 install
by Nick Jones 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

> > Sony Lies. Thats the max they sold it with, so as > > far > > as they are concerned its the max. Its well known > > their machines take more memory than they say. > > > > Go to crucial.com and enter the machine model, and > > get a quote. Firstly, let me apologize to all for the empty post. Lesson learned: don't use a Yahoo account on this list, Yahoo accounts suck for lists. I've changed email addresses. Anyhoo, Crucial doesn't seem to sell RDRAM memory. The cheapest I can find for a 128mb stick is $44 at Newegg. Still not worth it. According to Sony's website, the max memory this machine can take is 512MB (4 x 128MB sticks) so is that figure wrong? Also, I think I figured out my problem, SUSE wants the boot partition to be at the beginning of the disk, but right now the swap space is there. I think I'll boot Knoppix back up and put an ext3 partition at the beginning of the disk and put the swap after that. Unless I can do it with the 9.3 network install disk... Thanks -Nick

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video and font problems...
by Clayton 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

I've got a nVidia 5200FX vid card. It's been working great. 3D accel games were working fine and my fonts look great. So tonight I have some time and need to unwind. I install Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Tribal Trouble and try compiling LooseCannon. Wolfenstein installs and works great.... so I decided to try compiling LooseCannon. I finally get LooseCannon to get past the config stage (loads of dev libs needed), but it won't "make"... Don't feel like trying to solve the make errors so I turn to TribalTrouble. This game has an installer... installs fine. I try to launch it... flashes the screen into several different modes... and exits with a video error. A little digging tells me that the game thinks my vid card can't do 3D accel games. Ummm... yes it can... just did it with Wolfenstein. I try to run Wolfenstein again... won't start... video errors... I check glxgears and I'm down under 150 fps... I should get around 1000 fps easy with this vid card. No applications that use the GL side of my video card work now... I restart X thinking maybe that will restart any nVidia stuff... no go. Now I notice my fonts are all jaggy and look awful... hard to read in some applications now. i reboot... nothing different. :-( So... any suggestions? I haven't tinkered with my xorg file... I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. All the RPMs I installed were only the *-devel versions of already installed stuff. They shouldn't affect the GUI at all.... Kinda lost here as to what went wrong... and how to get it all back to teh way it was earlier this evening. C.

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Re: [SLE] Mozilla-FireFox as a User
by Charles philip Chan 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

> (Gecko:16957): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent_window: assertion > `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed > (Gecko:16957): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_is_viewable: assertion `window != > NULL' failed > (Gecko:16957): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion > `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed Do you have gtk-qt-engine installed? If you do, try uninstalling it and see if it works. If it does then look at the gtk-qt-engine package and look for permission problems. Charles -- "Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it is under AIX." (By Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix)

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xmms stops when inserting a sd-card in the usb cardreader
by Rikard Johnels 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Hello world! I have a odd problem; Whenever i insert or remove a sd memory card in my cardreader, xmms stops. Not just pauses and continues, but just stops. CPU load flies up to 100% as the system finds and mounts the card, and then xmms just stops. Same if i remove the card. System: Minimal graphical SuSE 9.2 install. apt installed kde, and a few other things. fstab: (amont the rest of the mounts) usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 /var/log/messages: when inserting the cardreader: kernel: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using address 4 kernel: usb 1-1.1: Product: USB Storage kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0100 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. /var/log/messages: when inserting the sd-card: /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[4211]: umount block device /block/sda/sda1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 59776 512-byte hdwr sectors (31 MB) kernel: sda: Write Protect is off kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: SCSI device sda: 59776 512-byte hdwr sectors (31 MB) kernel: sda: Write Protect is off kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: sda: sda1 /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[4587]: new block device /block/sda/sda1 /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[4597]: mount block device /block/sda/sda1 /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[4597]: mount disk/by-path/usb-0x05e3-0x0705:0:0:0p1 Where shall i start too look? /Rikard

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Forcing start order of init scripts
by Dylan 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Dear List, I use NIS to distribute /etc/hosts for lan hostname lookup. This works fine for all but one machine. For some reason, ypbind is not running on that machine until after xntpd tries to resolve my gateway's hostname to get initial time sync. Can I force /etc/init.d/xntpd to wait until ypbind is running? How? Cheers Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)

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Re: [SLE] Why won't 9.3 see my DVD-RAM drive
by TimSchofield.2231004＠bloglines.com 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

--- Dave Chapman <linux-lists(a)ntlworld.com wrote: > Can you see the drive in Yast>Hardware>CD-ROM Drives > and/or is there an entry in /etc/fstab > An icon for the Ram drive will only appear if there is media in the drive and > there is an entry in /etc/fstab for it. > > Dave No it does not appear in YaST -> Hardware -> CDROM There is a dvd in the drive and it is not showing up. Yes it is listed in fstab: linux:/media/dvdram # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda10 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda9 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda6 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/sda7 /windows/F vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/sda8 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdram /media/dvdram 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 /dev/md0 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 Tim

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runaway kacpid
by Patrick John Hays 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

I've had Suse 9.2 since it was released and have been having increased problems with kacpid. Every few days it suddenly starts hogging 48% of the CPU with a priority -10. If I "kill" it, it just starts right back up. Dropping the prority to +10 doesn't help. The only way to stop it seems to be to reboot. From the man page on acpid (which I assume kacpid is tied to although there doesn't seem to be any doc on kacpid) its not clear to me that acpid is necessary. My question is: where might I look to see what is triggering this uncivilized behaviour and what is kacpid 'doing'? TIA, Patrick

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KNode shows wrong time
by John Bailo 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

The KNode news reader shows posting times that are 3 hours off. My timezone is set to Pacific, but the times in Knode are all 3 hours ahead. Does KNode have a timezone setting? Where is it?

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Monitor
by Mitja 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Hi! I have ViewSonic P75f+ and sax2 didn't find it. There are many others ViewSonic monitors. I choose a vesa monitor. Is is possible to install P75f? Thanks, Mitja

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