August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KM4M-V mobo sound problems
by Andre Truter 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

I have two machines that use the MSI KM4M-V mother board. The board use the VIA KM400 and VIA VT8237 chipsets with AC97 sound card integrated. (VIA1617A Codec) I have SuSE 9.3 installed on both machines and on both we experiece weird problems with the sound card. It disappears between boots. Then, if you just go into the BIOS and exit with saving, the card is detected again. Any idea what it could be or where I should start looking? 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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update with yast
by Makurin Roman 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi All! This is my first post here. I`m new in RPM based distros, so be patient :-) My question about updates with yast. When I install rpms with yast eg from "packman" or from "guru" sources I want to save then in my local folder. I need this to be able to give updates for other people in my home net. Is there any option for that in yast ? Thanks PS: Sorry for english :-/

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Check this out - apologies to the OT Police
by Sid Boyce 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

http://mirror1.spikedhumor.com/1209/SwitchLinux.swf Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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9.3 woes (the epilogue?)
by Carl E. Hartung 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi All, Am I the only one having serious problems getting 9.3 to straighten out and fly right? I don't want to drag everybody through all of the gory details again, but the problems I've experienced are: - apps crashing when menus are clicked - the file system getting severely corrupted, twice (ext3 and Reiserfs) - artifacts (leftover bits and pieces of windows) remaining after resizing windows and closing programs - in gnome, netapplet closing 'suddenly' when I log in - SuSE Watcher & Plugger not 'embedding' correctly in the panel - knights.desktop came with 'illegal characters' in the mime type - SuSEconfig laboring extensively over gtk2 (takes a looooong time) - there are others, but this is getting too long already... These problems aren't being caused by hardware: I've got two other OSs installed and running beautifully (XP Pro is a business necessity and SuSE 9.2 Pro.) I have only two hard disks attached... no cdrom or dvd (I access these through the LAN when I need them), no usb devices, no add-in graphics card, no directly attached printer, etc.. I have ample memory (512MB) consisting of a single Crucial name brand module with lifetime warranty that tests fine with memtest86. My drives are SMART enabled and reporting nothing out of the ordinary. My fans are all running and the mainboard voltages and temperatures are well within spec. The installation runs fine, as does YOU and all the dependencies are met. I've tried it 'stock' plus YOU a couple of times, and a couple of other times with supplementary upgrades of KDE and GNOME. The only success I seem to have had (so far) is avoiding a third occurrance of the file system corruptions. I've had 9.3 running as an alternate to 9.2 now for a couple of days and I've spent several hours solid updating and fine-tuning it; lots of logging in and out and shutting down and restarting and the file systems have remained intact. However, the other problems are persisting and making it impossible to use 9.3 for daily work. So, I guess my questions are really these: 1. Am I the only one this has been happening to? 2. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? 3. Is 9.3 worth my time and effort since 9.2 is being so nice? I'd really appreciate hearing your ideas and opinions. TIA & regards, - Carl

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How to install Personal Security Manager for Epiphany under SuSE 9.3
by John Shane 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

I have been trying Epiphany that I installed from the SuSE 9.3 CD's. I like that it's lean and it seems quick, but it keeps asking me to install the Personal Security Manager. I get no results when I check YAST for the Mozilla/Epiphany PSM. Apt doesn't find it either. I've googled and gone to the Mozilla site but it isn't very helpful. One post from an email archive referred to reinstalling Epiphany and choosing the PSM option during installation. I may have missed it, but I don't think YAST gives that option. So how do I install PSM under 9.3? BTW, I have Mozilla and Firefox on the same system and they do not have this problem. TIA, John

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Pinnacle PCTV Pro
by Sári Gábor 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi! The YasT2 found the Pinnacle pCTV Pro tuner card: Installed as TV card number 0 Setting this card, "TV Channels..." "Scan the Channels" button. Message: To scan the TV channels package v4l-tools is required. Install is now? Yes. After install this package, next message: Error The kernel module for TV support could not be loaded. sh: "tuner":"-1": system error: operand expected (error token is ""tuner":"-1"") -- sAGA

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mount problem
by Sári Gábor 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi! The Beta1 Installer not mounting valid, existing partitions, and not mounting existing LVM volume. root:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 fej, 63 szektor sávonként, 155061 cilinder Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 20318 10240240+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb2 20319 155061 67910472 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 20319 40159 9999832+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 40160 60000 9999832+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 154069 155061 500440+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdb8 60001 68322 4194256+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb9 68323 154068 43215952+ 8e Linux LVM During installations, on Custom Partitioning Setup set the next items: / /dev/hdb6 formatting swap /dev/hdb7 formatting /mnt/hdb1 /dev/hdb1 not formatting /mnt/hdb5 /dev/hdb5 not formatting The YasT Installer know the /dev/Rendszer/ Volume Group, and /dev/Rendszer/1 logical volume. Set the next: /mnt/LVM /dev/Rendszer/1 NOT formatting After the install, /mnt/LVM/ directory exist, but /mnt/hdb5, and hdb1 not exist. The YasT2 created fstab: /dev/hdb6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 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/hdb5 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda3 /data3 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder 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 Existing the next mounting point: /data1 /data2 /data3 /data4 The mount options "noauto" is interesting... That's not set this option the Custom Partitioning. -- sAGA

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pkgconfig, aclocal and m4
by Donn Washburn 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hey Group; I have upgraded many packages from source. That way I have learned much more about the packages and I have been able to alter the CFLAGS to benefit from my CPUs features over a i586/686 which is the norm for a RPM. I am seeing one problem which I have not figures out. Doing a ./configure near the top of the output is several errors. Example: " /usr/share/aclocal/file.m4:# warning: underquoted definition of SOME_VARIABLE " The error is related to some of the upgraded apps. How is this fixed? m4 - macro processor m4 [-s][-D name[=val]]...[-U name]... file... As a rule i aways over write the old files to prevent two sets of the same files on the HD. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email : " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Please save the SuSE screenshot on Wikipedia
by Shriramana Sharma 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

ALERT! (Okay, sorry, but I feel it's important.) Please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SuSE93Pro.png It says: This image has information on its source, however it does not have information on its copyright status. Unless the copyright status is provided, the image will be deleted. Since I do not feel confident of what exact copyright status this image has, and since I couldn't figure out how to save this image myself, I've posted this here, and let the knowledgeable people do the saving. AFAIK there should be no problem with putting up a computer screenshot on Wikipedia (so long as the screen doesn't have any objectionable images or other kind of content). Please tell me (or the list) when the saving has been done. Thanks! -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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Problem with Wikipedia article on SuSE
by Shriramana Sharma 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE says: %; quote ;% On August 4th, 2005, Novell spokesman and director of public relations Bruce Lowry announced that their SUSE Professional series will become completely open source and renamed OpenSUSE to reach a wider audience. The software, by definition of open source, already had their coding "open", but now the development process will now be "open", allowing developers and actual users to test the product. As part of the change, YaST Online Update server access will be complimentry for OpenSUSE users, and along the lines of most open source distributions, there will be a free download available on the web. It is rumored that Novell will sell a boxed edition of OpenSUSE, in addition. This change in philosophy starts with the 10.0 beta, released at the 2005 Linux World Conference. %; unquote ;% I think there's a problem here. The sentences: 1. "the SUSE Professional Series will become ... renamed OpenSUSE" 2. "Novell will sell a boxed edition of OpenSUSE" both assume and imply that the software has been renamed to OpenSUSE. In fact, as has been affirmed on this list, it's only the project that's continuing the development of SuSE Pro 9.3 in an open manner that is called openSUSE (so capitalized) and the product resulting from it will be called SUSE LINUX 10 (no "Professional" and no small u in SUSE [??]). Please advise me on this so I can change the Wikipedia page, or if you change the Wikipedia page yourself, please inform me. Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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