August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

CD makes system freeze
by Roy F. Cabaniss 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Ever since I upgraded to SuSE 10.1 I've had an intermittant problem with the CD/DVD player on my work computer. Putting a regular CD (either manufactured or self burned) into the CD player and trying to copy a file/folder onto my hard drive sometimes results in two things. (The determinant seems to be file size, very small files I can copy, anything over about 2 meg and it happens) 1. The file copy indicator shows the copy speed slowing down and eventually it says stalled and the drive light goes off. 2. The entire system freezes. Mouse ceases to work. Cntl-Alt-Del has no effect. Keyboard is unresponsive. The only way to get it back is to press the reset and let the system reboot. In YAST: When I check the ide parameters the current dma mode for the cd is off. If I attempt to reset the DMA for the CDROM to UltraDMA33 I get an error message of: "An error occured while activating the changes. Cannot set required mode '%1' for device '%2'." At a terminal as root, It seems as if I can manually reset the parameter with: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc however this does not last to the next reboot. ideas on how to make this behavior cease? -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss Professor of Marketing University of Arkansas Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu

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RAID mirroring
by Istvan Gabor 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hello all: I've got a technical question: Currently I have an 160 GB Samsung SATA HD in my system. I would like to put in another 160 GB Maxtor HD and have my whole system (all my current HD) mirrored. As I know this would be a RAID mirror. My questions: 1. Is it possible to set up a mirrored system if I have data already on one of the drives? 2. If yes what would be the process? I have an ASUS KN8 mobo that can do SATA RAID according to the manual. TIA, IG ________________________________________________________________ Iratkozzon fel szakmai hírlevelünkre és nyerje meg Ön a 3 db kényeztető wellness hétvége egyikét! kattintson ide: http://www.dashofer.hu/origo/?wa=CEMORI0632

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Temperature above threshold
by Robert Fitzpatrick 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

When I am ripping CD's and encoding MP3 using RipperX, I start receiving the following in the logs. Things come to a crawl with and the root file system becomes unwritable. I have inspected the box and the CPU fan is working fine. Nothing feels hot at all... media:/home/robert # tail /var/log/messages Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU0: Runnmedia: That last entry was over an hour ago, doesn't seem to be doing it for the past hour. Seems the messages stopped last night after my last rip and then started again this morning as soon as I started ripping again. However, I reboot and see the CPU in the BIOS is 56-57C. Then I turned it off, went out for 2-3 hours. When I got back, I went straight to the BIOS and it matched that temp within a couple of minutes after initially being 44C. So, I don't think this is directly related to ripping. The RPM of the fan generally stays at 2500-3000. Are these numbers normal? The machine is a P4 3.2GHz with 1GB RAM on a ASUS P4P800-E mb. -- Robert

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networking printer
by Dennis J. Tuchler 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Is there a HowTo for setting up a printer in a network? Two computers (1 Windows XL 1 SuSE 10.0) are attached to a router which is attached to a DSL modem. I want to attach the printer to the router rather than to a computer. -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler 7330 Kingsbury Boulevard University City, Missouri 63130

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Switching from Gnome to KDE
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi list, My friend mistakenly installed SuSE Linux 10.1 with Gnome instead of KDE, after that they hardly installed network, which took a long time. Now he wants to switch to KDE, but without re-installing system(not ot lose that network;)). Is it possible? Any help greatly appreciated. -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Scinetific Researcher, Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University

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[opensuse] zmd failed to parse xml metadata
by Rene Salmon 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi, I found some postings related to this on the list but none seem to help me with my problems. running 10.1 I have a www server that is connected to the internet and also to our private internal network. I have to rsync a mirror of opensuse on our www server and make that available to our internal net for installs and updates. The www server private IP is 10.0.0.9. I can add and use my local mirror the suse updates: rsync://suse.mirrors.tds.net/suse/suse/update/10.1 But I can't seem to add and use the opensuse 10.1 local mirror: rsync://suse.mirrors.tds.net/opensuse-full/ admin-02-01 /root# rug sl # | Status | Type | Name | URI --+--------+------+------------+------------------------------------------- 1 | Active | ZYPP | suse-local | http://10.0.0.9/pub/suse/suse/update/10.1/ admin-02-01 /root# rug ref Refreshing Services... 100% Successfully refreshed. admin-02-01 /root# rug sa --type=zypp http://10.0.0.9/pub/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse local-opensuse Adding zypp service... 0% ERROR: Could not add 'http://10.0.0.9/pub/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse': Failed to parse XML metadata: Can't add repository at http://10.0.0.9/pub/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse: Cannot create the installation source Any ideas? Thanks Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu rsalmon(a)tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Tel 504-988-8552 Fax 504-862-8392 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [SLE] xgl/compiz ?
by suse＠rio.vg 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

DataIntellect wrote: > Does anyone have xgl working with KDE? If so, is it stable, worth the effort to setup, etc? > > > Short answer: No, it's not worth the effort. Long answer: It can work, but compiz is very much gnome territory, and it will kill KDE's desktop pager, and have other annoying incompatibilities. Compiz is really, really, really, beta. The XGL itself, that is, the 3d rendering of the screen and whatnot seems to work very well. The problem is tying it to the interface elements. Right now, the only way to do this is through compiz, which seems to have been rather neglected. I would guess that the people doing XGL were far more interested in the nuts and bolts 3d on the xorg end. I'm hoping other window managers will begin to support XGL. -- 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 -- 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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Re: [SLE] xgl/compiz ?
by suse＠rio.vg 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

DataIntellect wrote: > Does anyone have xgl working with KDE? If so, is it stable, worth the effort to setup, etc? > > > Short answer: No, it's not worth the effort. Long answer: It can work, but compiz is very much gnome territory, and it will kill KDE's desktop pager, and have other annoying incompatibilities. Compiz is really, really, really, beta. The XGL itself, that is, the 3d rendering of the screen and whatnot seems to work very well. The problem is tying it to the interface elements. Right now, the only way to do this is through compiz, which seems to have been rather neglected. I would guess that the people doing XGL were far more interested in the nuts and bolts 3d on the xorg end. I'm hoping other window managers will begin to support XGL. -- 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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Suspend/Resume using OpenSuse 10.0 and ATI (fglrx)
by Jimisola Laursen 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi! I'm not able to use suspend/resume (to disk) after changing driver from radeon to fglrx. Suspend/resume worked perfectly with the radeon driver, but with fglrx resume hangs during bootup. It reads pages, "restarts" devices etc and then after the message "Restarting tasks..." has been outputed it just hangs. I really don't want to move back to the radeon driver. I see this kind of post everywhere, but I've tried several things without any luck. I haven't figured out this stuff about swsusp and swsusp2 - which one do I use with the default installation and which one is recommended? I'd really appreciate some help on this issue. Regards, Jimisola Setup: Dell D600: RADEON 9000 OpenSuse 10.0: 2.6.13-15.11-default Xorg: xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2 fglrxinfo (I actually use fglrx_6_8_0_SUSE100-8.27.10-1: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY/RADEON 9000 DDR Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.1091 (X4.3.0-8.27.6) xorg.conf (relevant information): Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "on" Option "Xinerama" "off" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic TFT 1600x1200" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" # changed Mode from 0660 to 0666 / jimisola 060803 Mode 0666 EndSection -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Suspend-Resume-using-OpenSuse-10.0-and-ATI-%28fglrx%2… Sent from the suse Help forum at Nabble.com.

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SPAM: Xine/totem codecs
by Richard Bown 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi, anyone know which rpm repository has the codecs for xine based, ie Totem, kaffeine etc, programs which allow DVD films to be watched ? Thanks Richard

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