January 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Complicated CPU frequency problem
by Alistair 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hello I have two Centrino laptops that exhibit similar problems with 10.0 If I start the machine on power, and then query the cpu, I get this... alistair@juno:~> cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 0.3: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004 Report errors and bugs to linux(a)brodo.de, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: centrino CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 600 MHz - 1.10 GHz available frequency steps: 1.10 GHz, 800 MHz, 600 MHz available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace, powersave, performance current policy: frequency should be within 600 MHz and 1.10 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 600 MHz. ...which is correct. Unplugging from AC to battery, gives me: alistair@juno:~> cpufreq-infopo [snip] current policy: frequency should be within 600 MHz and 600 MHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 600 MHz. Which is also correct for power saving. However, I plug the machine back in again to AC, it sticks with the restricted speed range policy, and does not revert to the full range shown first. I have to do something like... juno:/home/alistair # cpufreq-set -u 1.1GHz ... to sort this. It is similar with my other laptop, except replace 1.1GHz with 1.5GHz. This seems wrong to me. Is it a known problem or a user failure? Otherwise, I will file a bug. Regards A

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 10 - Problems with PEAR
by Stephen Carter 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

The answer was that the base PEAR Installation package isn't installed with SuSE via the phpx-pear package, and this must be installed separately. The problem is you cannot install the latest version of PEAR by using the syntax pear install PEAR as it ironically requires a version of PEAR to already be installed. To install the PEAR package, you have to specify an older version such like: pear install http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.3.1.tgz then upgrade to the latest version (1.4.1) using pear install PEAR Regards, SteveC >>> "Stephen Carter" <stephen(a)retnet.co.uk> 12/29/05 2:57 PM >>> I'm trying to install the PEAR package Image_Graph (forced install to override 'stable' only package preferences as it's still in Apha) but I get an error that PEAR Installer is too old and needs to be at least v1.3.1. I have installed apache2, php4 & php4-pear from the SuSE10 Eval DVD. I also installed gd, php-gd and all other Image_Graph dependencies using pear just fine, but the final one just doesn't want to play. 1) How do I find out what version of PEAR I am running? 2) How do I upgrade PEAR? 3) How do I install Image_Graph? I have checked older versions of this package on the website but almost all of them require at least pear v1.3.1. On SuSE 9.3 the Image_Graph package does install so I'm not sure of where to look. Thanks, SteveC -- 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

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XP strange behaviour after SUSE install
by ferdybassi＠tin.it 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi all. I have a toshiba laptop with a 60 GB HD which I have partitioned as follows: - hda1 14 GB NTFS Windows XP - hda5 16 GB NTFS Windows XP Data - hda6 4 GB FAT32 to share files between WinXP and SUSE - hda7 400 MB Reiser /boot - hda8 16 GB Reiser / - hda9 10 GB Reiser /home I first installed Windows XP on its primary partition, then installed SUSE 10 and set up Grub to boot both. Now SUSE 10 can boot w/out any problem, but when I boot Windows XP I get this strange behaviour: it boots, it lets me CTRL+ALT+DEL, it lets me log in with my username/password... then it loads my desktop settings and suddenly freeze. I got "busy mouse pointer" and I can't do anything. By entering Task manager it seems that the problem is caused by AVG Free antivirus (it freezes and I can't stop it) or by ConfigFree, a Toshiba tool to easily switch between different LANs. I can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL again to reboot: I just have to press shutdown button... Never happened with SUSE 9.2... Both Windows XP and SUSE 10 are fresh installations. I just updated them, without installing any other software, except AVG antivirus My hypothesis: - AVG Free detects some change into the reisers partitions or into the MBR and it just goes crazy - SUSE 10 has some bugs into partition handling - Windows XP SP2 doesn't like that someone manages partitions after its installation Any hints? TIA, Ferdinando

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Linux and USB WebCam suggestion
by MindBender 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

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xpdf-tools and kdegraphics3-pdf
by Benjamí Villoslada 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

The KDE 3.4 to 3.5 upgrade (SUSE 9.1) can't install the new kdegraphics3-pdf because depends of xpdf-tools that «it is not installable». Anyone knows where is the xpdf-tools RPM? I've searched it, but seems the same that xpdf-config (available for SUSE 9.1). kpdf works fine after one kdegraphics3-pdf installation with "--nodeps" but the unmet dependencies messages are a headache. Thanks and happy 2006! :) -- Benjamí http://weblog.bitassa.net .

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DLink wireless card support?
by Simon Roberts 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi all, I'm rebuilding a friend's kid's computer, currently running W-98, and I'd really like to get it running SuSE 10 (convert 'em while they're young and impressionable). Unfortunately, this thing depends on a D-Link DWL-520 wireless (PCI) card for its networking, and I can't seem to make it work. It's not listed at all on the hardware support database, but it's an old 802.11b only device, so I was hoping it had been around long enough to be supported. When I run Yast, it sees the device, and lets me put in the WEP configuration and all that, but if I run ifconfig, the device doesn't show up at all. Running iwconfig shows nothing wireless either. Any suggestions? Am I missing something obvious? If this is not a supported device, did I read something a while ago about now being able to use Windows drivers under Linux in some way? I'm anxious to make this work, as the only alternative will be to put whindoze back on it :( TIA Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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SPAM: Network Name Resolution Problem
by Eric Hines 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Folks, I'm having trouble getting name resolution to work, and I'd like your help. I'm running a SUSE Pro 9.3 server that also runs a Samba server, a dhcp server, and a dns server. This server box has three NICs (all addresses are private--192.168--so I'll just use the last two octets): a .1.0 that faces the Net (with sserver on .1.2, via YaST, and in /etc/hosts (a router/switch is on .1.1 that serves as firewall for the whole network, including some devices not in my part)), a .2.0 subnet (lserver0 and lserver01 on .2.2) with a Win2k PC, and a .3.0 subnet (lserver02 on .3.1) with a laptop that's dual bootable between WinXP and SUSE Pro 9.3. Both subnets must go through the .1.0 interface to get to the Internet. The name resolution problems seem limited to my LAN. I get good addressing from the dhcp server, and both subnet devices get onto the Internet just fine. I mention the Samba server only for completeness; I don't (yet) think it's involved in these problems. What I'm seeing is this: I can get hostname resolution from both the PC and the laptop as XP with one exception: a name a few months ago, lserver0 was given a .1.103 address. When the PC pings lserver0 (which now has the .2.2 address), it gets back, still, .1.103 on one of Window's standard 4 replies; the other 3 replies are timed out errors. Flushing the resolver cache (ipconfig -flushdns) has no effect on this. The laptop as XP has no such problem. However, the laptop as SUSE cannot ping by hostname--it only gets unknown host. It can, however, ping by FQDN (e.g., ping lserver01.test1.biz gets correct responses, ping lserver01 gets "unk host"). All "three" devices, though, have always been able to ping sserver (the interface facing the Internet) successfully. An ethereal trace has the PC sometimes failing to get a right answer via DNS and getting the right answer via (Windows?) NETBIOS name service lookup and sometimes getting the right answer via dns, and so in both cases getting successful pings. It's like dynamic dns isn't updating the reverse lookup tables; although, frankly, I'm uncertain that the forward tables are getting updated, either--vis., the problem with pinging lserver0 described above. However, I have "ddns-updates on;" and "ddns-update-style interim;" in my dhcpd.conf file (without the quotes). My questions are these: what should I look for to get this running correctly? How can I check to see whether ddns really is functioning as it should? How do I read the tables where the dns functionality caches its data on the various devices (i.e., what command presents those tables)? What other data do you all need in order to help me with this? I have 9 DNS files (although I suspect the root.hint file is not a problem); my dhcpd and named config files; I can generate ethereal traces, if these are useful; etc. They'll make for a large email, though. I hope, though, that this is just something I'm doing that's incredibly brain dead and easy to fix. Thanks for your help. Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell

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Linksys linux gurus?!?
by bernd 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

I saw recently that someone had been in contact with the people at linksys that actually knew something about linux, but I toasted the message. I've been going round robin with linksys regarding my setup and need to find someone there who has some linux smarts. Anyone have any linux contact info at Linksys? Bernd

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Suse 10.0 +kde +audio cd confusion
by Art Fore 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

I have searched the internet and the more I find, the more confused I get on the above subject. Here are the confusion parts. KDE Control center is supposed to have a CDDB Retrieval under sound & Multimedia. It does not. It has Names tab under Audio CD of which I have found no information on. Konqueror should use CDDB-get to get the music titles when browsing the audio CD. It does not. Amarok should uses CDDB-get to show the song titles on the audio cd. It does not and is probably related to the Konqueror problem. CD Ripper gets the music titles, I guess from CDDL-get, but will not save as mp3-mp4, only FLAC and Ogg. I have installed lame, CDDB-get library and CDDB-get-perl modulesl, xine, and everything else that I found that should make it work. It just refuses to work. Does anyone have a solution for either getting CD ripper (sound juicer) to output mp3-mp4 or get amarok to use the CDDL-get, or what ever is required to show the music title? I have been working on this for two weeks now and have had no success. I figure there is a configuration setting somewhere that no one is saying anything about. Art

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Konqueror & audio CDs
by Art Fore 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

In suse 10, konqueror displays the audio cd tracks but no CDDB info. Supposed to be CDDB Retrieve in the KDE control panel, but there is no such animal. Have installed lame, flac, ogg libs xinelib1 & cddb-get-perl, still no success. Nothing in help menu on this subject. So, what is the secret to getting Konqueror to display this info? http://www.antrix.net/stuff/kde_audiocd/ and several other websites show konqueror with the music titles, etc. Art

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