October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] SuSE Restart vs Shutdown
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Per Jessen [mailto:per@computer.org] replied: > Terry Eck wrote: > > > Does SuSE somehow force the computer to bypass the boot sequence set > > in the BIOS when it is told to "restart"? If so, anyone > know how this > > is done? > > No, SUSE (nor anyone else) cannot override the boot-sequence > set in the > BIOS. Not meaning to insult anyone, but it could be as simple as inattention. The default loader screen on the CD looks a lot like the default loader screen of installed SUSE - that pretty blue screen with four or five selections in the middle... If you aren't paying attention, you could imagine you're looking at the usual installed-SUSE startup selection screen. The default action of the screen from the CD is to load from hard disk, so unless you are paying attention and override that by selecting one of the other options, the system loads the preliminaries from the CD (not your hard disk), waits the few seconds for the timeout, doesn't get a keypress or mouse-click from you, and starts the default selection... which is your already installed SUSE 10. I've been wrong before. Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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SuSE Restart vs Shutdown
by Terry Eck 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Yesterday I wanted to boot from a CD so I checked to "restart" option. The system rebooted and at the correct point I got into the BIOS to make sure the CDROM would be the boot device. Then when it got to the point of rebooting the computer ended up in SuSE 10. I then told SuSE to "turn off the computer", which it did. After powering on the computer if booted off the CDROM. My question: Does SuSE somehow force the computer to bypass the boot sequence set in the BIOS when it is told to "restart"? If so, anyone know how this is done? Thanks for any insite Terry -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15.12-default -- Sun 10/01/06 1:10pm up 17:03, 3 users, load average: 0.50, 0.46, 0.42

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RE: [SLE] SuSE Restart vs Shutdown
by mlist＠safenet-inc.com 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Alexey Eremenko [mailto:al4321@gmail.com] wrote: > Actually, SUSE does NOT bypass your BIOS settings, *but* it has 2 > bootloaders, one on the CD-ROM and other in the Hard Disk, so you migh > boot > from CD-ROM wait for 10 seconds, and if you don't pressed any buttons, > it > boot from Hard Disk. > > So *watch* carefully what bootloader runs after restart. (and don't > blink) > > The two bootloaders look the same but have one *big* diffrence - > bootloader > on CD has first option to "boot from Hard Disk", while bootloader on > Hard > Disk has no such option, because it already booted from HDD. OK, Alexey beat me to it - sorry for the duplicate post. But it sounds like more than one person has tripped over the similarity, so I wonder if it would make sense for SUSE to do something simple to change the appearance of one or the other selection screen. Either make them two different background colors, or two different foreground text colors, or perhaps _move_ the block of selections on the screen, enough to be obvious... one would be (say) center-left and the other would be center-right. Or, on the CD-based boot selector, the first option could blink while the countdown was on. Any observations and comments? Or is this just too darn trivial? Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.

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Konqueror Pop-ups
by Lívio Cipriano 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, I'm using SuSE 10.1 with KDE 3.5.1 and I can't find how to disable pop-up windows in Konqueror. As far as I can remember that was possible or am I missing something? Regards Lívio

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/var/log/messages, kernel messages, what is this ?
by Sylvester Lykkehus 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi All, In my /var/log/messages, these messages keeps appearing: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: b5:ad:12:d9:3f:d5:a3:9a:c1:d9:b2:fb:e0:a8:ab:bb: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: 28:5d:d1:4e:56:0c:da:4d: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: bc:19:d7:53:bd:db:92:53: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: ab:21:40:9d:be:b2:17:91:bc:99:88:ef:e8:23:99:f7: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: e8:09:71:33:8f:94:b4:76: Sep 30 18:01:18 SoliD kernel: 6f:34:4e:e7:a7:60:36:59: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: fb:00:34:29:17:9d:b2:15:ff:20:dd:dc:06:10:b5:93: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: c1:29:be:e7:4a:de:d2:4e: Sep 30 18:01:56 SoliD kernel: 72:98:6c:b8:14:a6:44:17: almost twice every minute, 3-8 messages per second. There seems to be no pattern in the messages. What could be causing this, and what does these messages really tell ?

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10.1: No resume after latest kernel update
by Hermann J. Beckers 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

After upgrade to 2.6.12.21-0.25-bigsmp, my system doesn't resume anymore. Suspend works, resume starts, it even restores the data pages, but when control should go the reactivated kernel, it shows only the screen with the suspend messages. Any hints? hjb

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Re: [SLE] SUSE = Ubuntu? (now power consumption)
by M Harris 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

On Monday 25 September 2006 21:22, M Harris wrote: > Tomorrow when I have a little more time I will measure the entire > system again, this time with each machine cranking on a 20,000 digit > computation of pi--- just to see what the overall load increase will be > with all of the processors "hot" so to speak--- never measured that before > either! Ok, again as promised, I measured my home system/network for a contrast comparison between all processors idle vs all processors pegged. First I established a baseline for the house (systems down) including my office cd amp (forgot that before). So... I removed the cd amp from the system load numbers. The entire network up and idling consumes 625 watts (see previous post for network compliment). I then shipped this command to each processor on the network to get it cranking on a computation of pi to 50,000 digits: time echo "scale=50000; 16*a(1/5)-4*a(1/239)" |bc -lq The scale was chosen significantly large enough so that even the fastest machine on the network could in no way complete the calculation before I could take the measurement. ( to see the pi calculation complete on your own system in a reasonable time set the scale to something smaller than 1000 ). Survey says.... With all processors pegged the entire network consumes *780 watts*. So, to put this in perspective, even with all processors pegged the entire network still consumes 5% less power than my coffee maker. Over an (8) hour day the network will consume 6.2 KwHr pegged vs 5.2 KwHr idling. The coffee maker consumes about 6.6 KwHr over that same period. Moral to the story?? Well, if I give up coffee.... I will be healthier and the savings will completely pay for running my home network. ;-))) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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YaST and soundfonts
by eddieleprince 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Has anyone managed to install soundfonts using YaST? I'm currently trying to run Solfege but without any joy. I have a soundblaster live card. Any thoughts on how to get solfege going on SUSE 10.1 anyone? Thanks Eddie

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