May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: 10.0 freezes after the latest xorg updates
by Joachim Schrod 17 May '07

17 May '07

Sunny wrote: > On 5/7/07, M Harris <harrismh777(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> On Monday 07 May 2007 21:25, Sunny wrote: >> > After the latest xorg updates my 10.0 x86_64 machine started to freeze >> > after an hour or so work. I have tested the memory and other >> > components, and everything looks OK. If I leave the machine in >> > runlevel 3, it does not freeze. >> Does the machine lock? --tight loop --? >> >> When it "freezes" can you ctl-alt-F1 and get to a console? >> >> When if freezes can you ping it? can you ssh to it? >> >> I can hardly believe that this is an xorg problem... no way. >> You have a >> memory or HD issue there... I suspect. >> > > Hardlock - no console, no net, no ssh, nothing. Completely dead. > Memory tested for 24 hours with memtest - OK. HDDs tested with their > manufacturers diagnostic tools (full test) - OK. > > After the problems started, I updated the nvidia driver, no change. So, did you try to downgrade the xorg packages? You can get the previous versions from the update archives, e.g., from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/update/10.0/rpm/x… You'll probably need to downgrade xorg-x11-libs and xorg-x11-server. (I can't say it exactly, since I don't have a x86_64 system -- but on my i586 system these were the recent xorg updates.) That should give you an opportunity to verify your hypothesis that your problem is cause by the xorg update. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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RE: [opensuse] cannot see wireless networks (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 17 May '07

17 May '07

Sometimes mine will do that, so what I usually do is su pccardctl eject pccardctl insert rcnetwork restart Basically, I just want to get the card to restart itself, and then get reinitialized. ~~~~~~~~~~ Have a Linksys wireless card using the ndiswrapper for the driver. Although it has bee working like a charm for the past few months, a couple of days ago it could no longer see wireless networks. The Power LED is lit on the card, however the Link LED doesn't flicker periodically as though there is no TCP traffic or even a 'heart beat' flicker. 'ifconfig shows the MAC address of the card and ndiswrapper -l shows, 'lstinds driver present, hardware present'. Any ideas on how I can fix this? ~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for the info. Sadly, that didn't work. Even a reboot doesn't fix the problem. Restarting the network shows wlan0 device: Wireless Interface and then it backgrounds the DHCP request, however I never see the LED flicker on the card. It is as though no packets are getting to the card. The card works when I boot into windows, but I don't really want to do that. What else can I do to trouble shoot this? Anything to look for in the logs? Thank you, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Bonding two network cards
by Jan Kalcic 17 May '07

17 May '07

Michael Kershaw wrote: > Jan, > > In your ifcfg-bond0, instead of listing the interface as the > bonding_slave's, have you tried to tell it the pci info instead like > so: > > > BONDING_SLAVE0='bus-pci-0000:04:02.0' > BONDING_SLAVE1='bus-pci-0000:04:02.1' > > Here's my complete ifcfg-bond0: > > BOOTPROTO='static' > BROADCAST='192.168.148.31' > IPADDR='192.168.148.30' > MTU='1500' > NETMASK='255.255.255.224' > NETWORK='192.168.148.0' > REMOTE_IPADDR='' > STARTMODE='onboot' > BONDING_MASTER='yes' > BONDING_MODULE_OPTS='mode=active-backup miimon=100' > BONDING_SLAVE0='bus-pci-0000:04:02.0' > BONDING_SLAVE1='bus-pci-0000:04:02.1' > > Let me know if this helps! Unfortunately not. I still have the problem both using pci info and adapting your config file. I guess is something wrong with the configuration as I have the same problem anywhere I try (openSuSE as well as SLES) Jan > > On 5/17/07, Michael Kershaw <mike.kershaw(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Jan, >> >> What type of switch are you connected too out of curiousity, and >> do you have control of the switch? I'll review your configuration in >> the mean time to see if I can see any oddities. >> >> Mike Kershaw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Disconnected LCD
by Hans van der Merwe 17 May '07

17 May '07

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 01:41 +0800, Joachim Steiger wrote: > Hans van der Merwe wrote: > > Will the phone still work - bootup and function as normal - if I > > disconnect the LCD? > > It for an experimental, low power, vacuum environment. > yeah, it should work. > > [...] > > http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm > the only question it leaves me with is: what do you want to do with an > gsm phone in high orbit? ;) Nothing, but the low power modes, USB hub and SDcard reader is very useful. (as an experiment) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mico$oft Wants Royalties
by M Harris 17 May '07

17 May '07

So, Novell was offered the gambit and all of FOSS may have to pay... ... from the article: "According to open-software experts Microsoft is the real winner. The deal with Novell allows Microsoft to go out and demonstrate it is correct about Linux violating Microsoft patents, since Novell agreed to pay $40 million not to have its Linux customers sued for violations." "Industry insiders are now weary of what may come of Microsoft's experts. If Microsoft convinces the patent system that it is right, the open-source industry could face potential meltdown. Eben Moglen, executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center says a massive war is about to be waged on the patent battlefield." http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7269

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[opensuse] Re: [Evolution] Graphics lost in forwarded message
by Hans van der Merwe 17 May '07

17 May '07

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:05 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:39 -0400, Dick Rounds wrote: > > I frequently receive emails with embedded graphics. Evolution opens > > these without a problem. However, when I forward these to someone > > else, the graphics get lost. > > > > I've checked my compose preferences and the HTML box is checked. Is > > there some other setting that I've missed? > > > > >From what I've seen, evo doesn't forward attachments. The only way I > was able to get it to do so was to Message -> Forward As -> Redirect, > save as draft, edit, change source address to me (instead of the > original person), and send. > > Daniel > I think there is 2 kinds of embedded images in HTML mails. One is truly embedded (uu-encoded into the mail body, not attached) and the other is just a link to some image at some http link (<img> tag in html). Can you (original author) determine which one of the two it is. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Installing RAID
by Stuart Murray-Smith 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi list I'm installing RAID-0 and RAID-1 to a /dev/hda and to a /dev/sda . Question is, how certain can I be that SuSE 10.2 will install to /dev/sda (which is set as primary boot device in the BIOS), while YaST's RAID config wizard reflects /dev/hda as the primary device. Thanks in advance, and have a great a day! Stuart -- Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?
by Mohammad Bhuyan 17 May '07

17 May '07

Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it. Any comment? (Dell Inspiron 6400 - - Intel 2x1.66Ghz + Intel 945GM Display) -- Mohammad Bhuyan Software Engineer Mobile: +61 4 13324850 mahafuz(a)gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] NVIDIA drivers
by Simon Lewis 17 May '07

17 May '07

Dear openSUSE developers/packagers Ubuntu 7.04 now has 3 NVIDIA drivers in restricted modules: nvidia-glx-legacy (1.0-7184) nvidia-glx (1.0-9631) #Last version to support Geforce 2 MX 400 amongst others nvidia-glx-new (1.0-9755) It would be nice to have the same 3 drivers in the openSUSE 10.2 non-oss repository. For my graphic card the 1.0-9631 is the correct driver. For the moment I have to install the driver manually using the NVIDIA installer script. In the recent months there have been 3 kernel-updates and I have to manually reinstall the driver every time the kernel is updated. If the above drivers were in opensSUSE's repository, then the driver would automatically be upgraded when the kernel is updated. Ciao, Simon. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Burning dvd size mismatch.
by Carlos E. R. 17 May '07

17 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I burnt a dvd (non iso) using this command line: growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=image Then, I compared the result: cmp /dev/hdc image and got this: cmp: EOF on /Grande/imgs/image Thus, to check whether everything was saved, I extracted the image from the dvd: nimrodel:/Grande/imgs # dd if=/dev/hdc of=dvd 9179712+0 records in 9179712+0 records out 4700012544 bytes (4.7 GB) copied, 392.888 s, 12.0 MB/s and compared the sizes: 4700000000 image 4700012544 dvd Ie, the dvd image extracted from the dvd is slightly bigger. I assume this must be some kind of end of track adjustment, but it means that the compare fails. I think I can compare doing this instead: nimrodel:/Grande/imgs # cmp --bytes=4700000000 image /dev/hdc and they match. I can extract the extra bytes: nimrodel:/Grande/imgs # dd if=dvd of=extra skip=4700 ibs=1MB 0+1 records in 24+1 records out 12544 bytes (13 kB) copied, 0.0236522 s, 530 kB/s and it is all zeroes. Am I correct, is this to be expected, or am I doing something wrong? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGQdT6tTMYHG2NR9URAniEAJ4p+nDT0aQuX9EHKLqgsBXv3mEpYwCcD61h 8qCK4GqtCXNlgNimCh6QHEw= =jX3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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