October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

xen +Suse 10.1 +nvidia
by Art Fore 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

I have a new dual core AMD64 motherboard and would like to get Xen to working, but am not having much success. System contains an Nvidia 7i300 video card. If I use the "nv" driver, which works with Xen but output to the 1680X1050 monitor is unsatisfactory. The driver works under the default X86_64 smp kernel, but not the Xen enabled X86_64 smp kernel. I tried a couple of patches i found on the internet to the NVIDIA driver, but they did not work. Has anyone any success in stalling Nvidia drivers on X86_65 SMP kernel machine? If so, please point me in the direction of any documentation of how to do this. Art

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absolute strangest audio problem
by stephan beal 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi, Susers! i've got a new PC with Suse 10.1 and after i couldn't get the on-board card to produce any output i popped in my old trusty SB-compatible PCI card which has worked for me for 3 years or so (including in other 10.1 installations). After much fighting, it... well, it *kinda* works... read on... In yast i can see the card and configure it, but in the Volume settings i see no controls except for the Test button. During the *initial* setup of the card the controls were all there and the Test button played sound. (Boy, was i excited when it finally made some noise!) Now the test button does nothing. kmixer sees the card and i can change the volume levels all i want. xine can play audio from videos, and changing the volume via kmixer during playback works as expected. But i can't play any audio files (mp3/ogg). i have all of the updates from packman, etc., so that's not the problem (as far as i can see). What's so weird is that xine plays audio from movies just fine and kmixer does adjust the audio properly, but when, e.g., i try to use ogg123 or mpg123 to play audio files, i get: ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default No default libao driver available. alsaconf runs fine and does what i believe it should, except that the audio played at the end doesn't play (but that's half expected, seeing the above error from ogg123/mpg123). Playing audio using, e.g., Amarok, simply doesn't work. Following some advice from list-member Carl Hartung, here is the contents of some of my system files, in the hopes that someone will see what it is that i'm missing here: owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/devices 2: : timer 3: [ 1- 0]: raw midi 4: [ 1- 1]: digital audio playback 5: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback 6: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture 7: [ 1] : control 8: : sequencer owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/cards 1 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x8c00, irq 201 owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc3 (Sun Jan 22 09:27:15 2006 UTC). (that doesn't seem right - alsaconf says 1.0.13 is installed) owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/id cat: /proc/asound/id: No such file or directory owl:~ # find /proc/asound -name id /proc/asound/card1/id owl:~ # cat /proc/asound/card1/id AudioPCI owl:~ # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 2957914 local-APIC-edge timer 7: 1 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc 14: 56558 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 109113 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 112 IO-APIC-level acpi 177: 163074 IO-APIC-level libata, eth0 185: 2 IO-APIC-level libata, ohci1394 201: 963 IO-APIC-level Ensoniq AudioPCI 209: 56095 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3 217: 708616 IO-APIC-level fglrx NMI: 0 LOC: 2957807 ERR: 10 MIS: 0 owl:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound options snd-ens1371 enable=1 index=0 # B35A.F2uWXyTiEa3:Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128 alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 i went through the whole gamut of online updates last night, up to and including KDE, so i'm pretty sure i have the latest/greatest of everything. If anyone can offer any tips on possibly getting audio files to play, i would be be much appreciative. Having audio for movies fulfills 85% of my audio needs, but the weirdness factor of me not being able to play other audio is just bugging the hell out of me. -- ----- stephan(a)s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts

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An alternative to software.opensuse.org?
by Basil Chupin 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

software.opensuse.org, frankly, 'sucks' :-( . It is used as the source of the upgrades to KDE. Even though I am on broadband, every time KDE rpms get upgraded I end up with having downloads done at as low as 1Bps - yes *1* byte/sec, or simply hanging/timing out. And when this is the throughput for a RPM as small as ~45MB then the whole upgrading exercise becomes a damn farce. I have looked at the info on the 'Suse' site for the sources of files but cannot readily see an alternative/mirror for software.opensuse.org which contains the latest KDE upgrades (for 10.1). One would think that a site like software.opensuse.org would have sufficient bandwidth to handle all connections efficiently and expeditiously seeing as who owns it, but..... Does anyone know, please, of an alternate site to the above so that KDE upgrades can get done within a reasonable time span and not the aeons - and not to mention all the restarts one has to perform! - it now takes? Cheers. -- "Every burned book enlightens the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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OOo Writer Modified DocInformation Field doesn't update
by Lívio Cipriano 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi all, With OOo 1.x Writer, when I inserted the field Insert-> Field-> Other-> DocInformation-> Modified-> Date, it was update each time I saved the writer file. With OOo 2.0.2 does nothing. The field doesn't change, remains empty. But, in this version, if I insert the field Insert-> Field-> Other-> DocInformation-> Created-> Date, the field is updated each time I save the file, which contradicts the help: Modified: Inserts the name of the author, and the date, or the time of the last save. Created Inserts the name of the author, and the date, or the time when the document was created. Did anyone had the same results? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano

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Novell Aims to Test Your Linux Skill Level
by Fred A. Miller 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

LinuxWorld Magazine: Novell Aims to Test Your Linux Skill Level "Novell is this week is expected to launch on its training Web site an online Linux skills assessment tool that will give you immediate feedback on your level of Linux knowledge..." http://www.linuxworld.com/newsletters/edu/2006/1002ed1.html

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can't install 10.1 on formated ext3 partition
by Joe Zien 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Yast insists on installing 10.1 hdb9 which is my backup partition as a reiser partition, whiping out my backup. hdb10 is an empty 9GIG ext3 partition where I want to install 10.1. Why can't I just install 10.1 on a ext3 partition of my choise?

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Hungarian TV archive vs. firewall.
by pelibali 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi, I couldn't help my girly who wanted to watch some archived movies stored at a Hungarian archive. They are in fact the official TV2 broadcasts archived and theoretically accessible through http://www.tv2.hu/ , when clicking on any movie icons. With any browser we got the pop-up with the message that the movie is loading, but we were never able to really play it. So I had the feeling that could be firewall issue and could find entries in the firewall logfile where the webserver starts something from its TCP port 80 to various other ports on the router, but all of that is stopped. I guess that not only the Hungarian broadcasters use some undocumented random ports, but any idea please to solve this situa- tion?! Thank you, Pelibali

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Suspend/Resume on HP nx6125
by Hans du Plooy 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi guys, Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy. My hardware looks like this: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a36 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 02:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller 02:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller CPU is a Turion64, I'm running the fglrx driver 8.26.18 Thanks Hans

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"suse-beta-e" list.
by pelibali 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hi, I attempted to google for info, but couldn't find out whether the subj. list has been discontinued or still alive! Please any info? I was on the list and removed myself temporally. Then registered again, but no list e-mails arrive to me. The strangest was, that my registration was acknowledged... Thank you, Pelibali

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partitioning question...
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

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