September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Keyboard test
by Marlier, Ian 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Carl William Spitzer IV [mailto:cwsiv@myrealbox.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:13 PM > To: SuseLynuxEnglish > Subject: Re: [SLE] Keyboard test > > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 19:16 -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote: > > Is there a Linux program around, preferably part of the SuSE > distribution, for > > testing all the keys on my keyboard? I washed one of my keyboards and > it had > > stuck keys for a while. I want to be sure that they're all gone. > > > > And an aside: what are folks' favorite ways of cleaning keyboards? > > I favor air cans and if its really bad I pull the keys keeping them in > order and use simple green on a qtip to clean the open space, then scrub > the keys on a green scratcher. I do the same, except for the part about keeping them in order. It's so much fun to put the keys back randomly :-)

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LAN-driver for MSI K9N SLI-2F
by Sturla Holm Hansen 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi there list, I've been running Suse on both my laptop and desktop for quite a while and I'm really happy with it. I got a problem with getting LAN to work on my new pc however, it's the onboard gigabit-card on my MSI K9N SLI-2F, which runs on an NForce 570 chipset. The only driver I can find on Nvidia is for 10.0 (for the wrong kernel) and I can't seem to find any howto's on the net on how to get this to work. The funny thing is that it is detected and seems to be running fine, but I can't get it to take a dhcp-address, and if I set the ip manually everything looks fine, but I can't ping anything... Any ideas would be appreciated :) Thanx Sturla

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10.1 keyboard problem
by Steve Reilly 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi all, having a strange problem with my keyboard. It suddenly stopped working. When the x server is running, i cannot type at all. if i open a terminal, and issue control alt delete the computer will shut down, so i kknow the keyboard is working. Also, when booting, i can select in the boot menu what i want. i can switch to another terminal control alt f1, and so on, and the keyboard works fine, but not in the x server. how would this suddenly change on its own? and how would i fix it? i really dont want to re install i just finally got my tv card working after messing around with settings for weeks! thanks for any help. steve Peace Steve Reilly --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.

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Re: [SLE] Keyboard test
by Mark Harris 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Howorth <dhoworth(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> >> Its list of keyboards is not very up to date, so special keys like "Mail" and >> "WWW" (on my Logitech keyboard) aren't handled. > >That's bizarre isn't it? You'd think it would show you the keypress and >say something like "unexpected keypress .... Actually, that is exactly what happens, but the message comes from the kernel and not the tool. If you look in the log file with dmesg you will see a message indicating that the kernel has detected an unknown keypress, and then it tells you how to make the keypress known to the kernel with setkeycodes. Usually, the message will say that an escaped key e0xx was not known. Take the last two digits of that code, convert from hex to dec, and add 128. An example: Unknown keypress e006. use setkeycodes like this: setkeycodes e006 134 Take the code you get from dmesg (e006), take the 06 (is 6 dec) and add 128 to get 134. See the man page for setkeycodes. Once the kernel knows about the keypress you'll see it in showkey, and xev. However, you'll still need to map the keycode from xev to a valid X keysym. You will notice that the X xev maps the key differently than the kernel... in other words the kernel will showkey 134, and the xev will maybe show a keycode of 166 (or whatever). This is because X maps to a different keytable than the kernel does. Anyway you'll need a .Xmodmap file that has a line like: keycode xxx = XF86WWW (or whatever).... The xxx comes from xev, and the XF86WWW (or whatever symbol) comes from /etc/X11/XKeysymDB

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Replacement Wireless Adapter for Notebook
by Maurie Reed 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hello, all! I have a Compaq Evo N800w notebook on which the internal wireless (Compaq W200) has died and I'd like to replace it with a Cardbus (preferred) or USB adapter. The W200 was a 801.11b device, I'd like to be able to replace it with a device that handles 802.11g and hopefully that someone has had working with WPA2 and (fingers crossed) EAP-FAST / EAP-TLS. I'm running SuSE 10.1 on the laptop. Any suggestions? TIA maurie

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SLED10 and Active Directory
by Waters, James T 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Has anybody tried to connect SLED10 to an enterprise Active Directory environment? I am finding that I have to modify smd.conf, configure the network proxy settings then run the Network Services YaST tool. If you don't do this first you get winbind errors. Jim

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[opensuse] Proposal for a new format of Status Meeting Logs
by Rajko M 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Please compare readability of: http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-08-29/transcript and http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:Meetings/Status_Meeting_2006-08-29/transcript The second is done because on original too many lines are running out of the screen forcing reader to scroll left right. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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ZMD timeouts?
by Mike 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

After all the initial problems with the cd version of the hated zmd, I got enough updates manually installed that the updater worked well for a week or so. It even installed things properly if not very quickly (much slower than the old you -- I'm on a fast cable connection). However, today I have a large number of new updates to install (kernel, kernel-smp, etc.) and it chokes and dies with a timeout after downloading a many megabytes. I've restarted zmd and had the same result several times so it's not a one time problem. Here is the end of the zmd-messages log: 14 Sep 2006 18:09:08 INFO RedCarpetBackend+RCTransactionProgress 14 Sep 2006 18:09:09 INFO RedCarpetBackend Loading installed packages 14 Sep 2006 18:09:15 INFO RedCarpetBackend Finished loading installed packages 14 Sep 2006 18:09:15 INFO RedCarpetBackend Updating status of patches... 14 Sep 2006 18:09:21 INFO RedCarpetBackend Finished updating patch status 14 Sep 2006 18:09:22 ERROR Transaction Transaction failed: Need media 1: Curl error for: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/kernel-source-2.6.16.21…: Error code: Timeout reached Error message: Callback aborted Any ideas? I guess I can download the updates manually, but I thought zmd was all fixed (if it's not, then lets hope they don't issue the respin ISO).

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Corrupt H264 Files with Mencoder
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi, I have wrote simple script which (supposedly) could convert almost any video file into high-quality H264 MP4/AAC. Here it is: Dump both audio and video in raw format (because lavf cannot hadnle video streams with b-frames, and x264 can create only AVI, not MP4 container) mencoder $1 -ovc raw -nosound -o $1.temp.raw.avi mplayer $1 -vo null -ao pcm:file=$1.temp.wav Convert audio to AAC ffmpeg -i $1.temp.wav -acodec aac $1.temp.aac Here is the final stage, converting raw video into H264 while muxing it with AAC audio: mencoder $1.temp.raw.avi -audiofile $1.temp.aac -oac copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -ovc x264 -x264encopts 4x4mv:subq=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b -o $1.menc1p.mp4 Delete temp files. rm -f $1.temp.* However, I can play these on Linux (in VLC/Xine), on Mac VLC plays it without sound, While QuickTime Player and Windows Media Player cannot play them at all. Anyone could suggest what's wrong? Thanks in advance Andrei

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GRUB Question?
by John Pierce 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hello, I have 3 hard drives and one dvd-rw installed in my machine, I just added the third drive with win2k. Configuration: Primary IDE Master => /dev/hda => GRUB hd0 -- 160 Gb Seagate Primary IDE Slave => /dev/hdb => GRUB hd1 -- 160 Gb Western Digital Secondary IDE Master => /dev/hdc => GRUB hd2 ( I thought ) -- 20 Gb Seagate Secondary IDE Slave => /dev/hdd => GRUB hd3 -- Maddog DVD-RW If I unplug both drives from the Primary IDE controller then the win2k drive will boot and I see the 20 GB and the Maddog. If I use grub from the MBR of /dev/hda then it boots the grub loader and I can boot opensuse 10.1 with no problem, if I try the selection for Win2K then it gives me an error saying invalid device. GRUB menu.lst from /boot/grub of /dev/hda # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Sep 12 14:51:27 CDT 2006 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE Linux 10.1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 noapic nolapic pci=noacpi acpi=off apm=off resume=/dev/hda8 splash=silent s howopts initrd /boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=of f 3 initrd /boot/initrd title Win2K chainloader (hd2,0)+1 end menu.lst Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Thanks in advance! John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org

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