January 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Top/lsof
by Kain, Becki (B.) 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I read the man page of top but it's not helpful for this question. When top tells me cpu0 is being used 50.0% by sys, cpu1 is being used 65.7% by system space, how do I break down what processes are making up that 65.7%, in system space, of the cpu? And in lsof, how do you tell which cpu a process id's threads are tied to? Tia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Enabling 3D support for Xen kernel-based on 10.3
by Manuel Mely 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, I installed opensuse 10.3 on my home pc with a xen kernel 2.6.22. I would like to enable 3d support to my Nvidia Geforce 8500, but i can't use nvidia kernel modules. I read about a patch but it's for opensuse 10.2 , and tried to compile Nvidia drivers + patch without success. Is there a way to enable 3d support with 10.3?? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] strange information from smartupdate
by constant＠indo.net.id 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Having a fresh installed 10.3 on my Thinkpad I ran into a problem with a normal update. I know for sure that some days ago I could update but today I received following error information: Failed acquiring information for 'openSUSE-10.3-FTP': http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/media.1/media: Forbidden And that was followed by a similar informatiom for the other four or five other repositories.Can somebody helpme out? ___________________________________________________________ indomail - Your everyday mail - http://indomail.indo.net.id -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Brother printer
by Doug McGarrett 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I recently downloaded instructions from Brother which were supposed to apply to the HL-2040 printer. In the examples they gave, the printer model appeared to be HL-2030. I changed that in the instructions, as I followed them, to be HL-2040. Perhaps this was in error, and I should have left it 2030. If this is the case, how do I "erase" the erroneous installation, so I can use the correct one. I have, of course, the files and the instructions I downloaded from Brother, which seem otherwise quite clear. When I installed according the the instructions, except changing the printer number, I wound up where when I tell the machine to print, the print light goes on, and all the paper in the printer comes out of the machine, one after the other, all blank. TIA--doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Main Update Repository
by Claes Bäckström 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi. Get this error when I try to update with zypper. Refreshing 'Main Update Repository' Digest verification failed for patch-fetchmsttfonts.sh-4347.xml. Expected c2ac9f8f86f4e316700968ccaeee03c88c5d7be8, found 702eec24885aae54e89c7c3d6e307692f97f711e. Continue? [yes/no]: If I answer yes on that everything seams to work. But is this something to think about or should I ignore it? My machine is a newly installed openSUSE 10.3 i586 Warm Regards, Claes Backstrom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] suse 10.3 ppc sound and wireless problems (+ minor irritations)
by not disclosed 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I have installed SUSE 10.3 on my powerbook G4 Ti and it seems like most things are working well but I have no WIFI and no sound. WIFI: This could well be that I don't know what I am doing but I can connect to my AP with my other wifi enabled system just fine. I have tried yast2 - no connection, knetwork manager- no connection and manual configuring via iwconfig although I really don't know how to use this (I have a WPA-PSK key and it seems impossible to set this in iwconfig). So I don't necessarily think there is a fault but I haven't a clue how to proceed and fix it. Hints, high level tools and iwconfig scripts would all be handy and failing that a suggestion as to find out what yast is trying to do and how to debug would be great! I have some sort of mac airport card installed but I don't know what. SOUND: I have had a really hard time here, the installed kernel / sound / yast system gave no sound but showed a PowerMac Tumbler card. The updated system shows 2 sound cards, PowerMac Tumbler and AWACS. I can't edit the PowerMac Tumbler card, yast just crashes when I try (although I have been able to delete it). Before I deleted the PMT the AWACS couldn't be configured. Since then it can be. Problem is that when I play something via aplay, amarok etc I get a burst of sound between 1-5 seconds long and then silence. The sound I hear is correct (but truncated). The length of the burst is seemingly random. Amarok looks like it is still playing oblivious to the silence. In KDE I get no sound from ARTs at all. I have also tried alsaconf (same result). I have also tried the latest alsa driver but this would not compile. Incidently amarok just freezes if I use the gstreamer engine but appears ok with xine. Any ideas please? One of my main reasons for installing linux was to get amarok! Here are some minor irritations rather than major I would like to fix or understand... X11: This is fine provided I change nothing - if I do I instantly get a wierd gray blobbly screen and have to reset the xorg.conf to the previous settings and telinit 3; telinit 5. I think the graphics card has limitations that yast and sax don't understand - it certainly runs at a resolution they don't know (1152*768). I would be happy to leave it but I need to enable thrre button emulation for the trackpad... Trackpad: I would like to turn off the tap to click setting. yast: focus stealing and autoraising - is there anyway to stop this? it is always bloody annoying but on this slow, slow laptop it is excruciating to be rudely interrupted by yast every 15 seconds while it takes 5 minutes to get going... X11 locking when the lid is closed - never had a linux laptop before so never encountered this, how do I turn the locking off? Thanks, SA PS yast wasn't too clever during the partition section of the install so here is what I did for the record in case it is usefull for anyone else: Problem: Yast fails to provide a sensible solution for partioning the disk and fails to carry out the partition plan once you set it up reporting errors that it can't fix. Solution for me: using the install disk boot so a shell (install start_shell at the command line prompt). Then use pdisk to delete the partiions you don't want. My disk had to small "driver" partitions which I had to leave well alone - I think they might contain disk firmware - in any event they were very small so it hardly mattered. and then add: a 32mb mac hfs partition a swap partition and partitions for your install (I like 10Gb ext3 for / and the remaining disk (20Gb) for /home (ext3)). Then exit pdisk, exit the shell and the install starts as usual. When yast gets to the partition section it highlights the partitioning as a problem, which is depressing because this is what it did before. However, provided you don't adjust the partitions in yast it just works - yast formats the partitions with no bother. If you try to change something here it just produces errors as before. Note the small HFS partition is essential! the mac firmware can only boot hfs and this is where the boot loader will go. Regardless of single or dual boot it looks like you must have this! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host
by PerfectReign 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUSE 10.3 as the guest. I'm wondering - and I've googled this - how do I mount the host filesystem so I can do stuff. I want to burn a DVD with openSUSE, since there are no good tools in Windows to do this which match K3B. Ideas? -- 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] 10.3 and powermanagement
by Hans Petter Jansson 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:37 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Have you asked them when they're going to give > real support for basic linux functionality > (not any distro in particular...just the software > which the distributers collect to make a distribution, > such as, in this case, releasing information to the > battery-monitoring software teams so that the > battery monitor software actually gives at least > reasonably approximate battery-life indications)? I guess this is a bit offtopic, but have you tried the GNOME Power Manager? It creates dynamic battery profiles through statistical sampling. Seems to work pretty well. Pretty graphs too :) -- Hans Petter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Connecting to serial port (to be console) of 2nd suse box
by Linda Walsh 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 I have 3 machines in this setup. The setup being: - Room "big closet" (where I sit) contains "mDesktop". - Room "small closet" contains machines "mTest" and "mControl". - Machines mControl and mTest have a serial "crossover" cable (null modem) connecting their /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) ports. - I am using 'ssh' from mDesktop to connect into mControl. - I've setup mTest to listen on it's serial port for a login with the line in its "/etc/inittab": S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400,19200,9600 ttyS0 linux I sent -HUP to init on mTest to signal rereading its inittab. mTest appears to be spawning "agetty" on ttyS0 as expected/desired. *** my problem(s): - How do I use mControl's ttyS0 port to connect to mTest? - What program do I use on mControl to connect me to mTest? Notes/thoughts: I remember doing this with 'cu' in the past, but I've never felt entirely comfortable with this due to a comment in the 'cu' manpage: BUGS "This program does not work very well" Is there a preferred alternative? I vaguely remember using some sort of 'call device' like 'cua0' in cu that corresponded to ttyS0 with an invocation like: cu -l /dev/cua0 I've tried the above and "cu -l /dev/ttyS0" and neither work: mDesktop > cu -l /dev/ttyS0 cu: open (/dev/ttyS0): No such device or address cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use mDesktop > cu -l /dev/cua0 cu: open (/dev/cua0): No such file or directory cu: /dev/cua0: Line in use ------ The different error messages, in some part, have to do with the fact that under the new udev-managed /dev directory "cua0" no longer exists. Don't even remember, offhand, what it's Major-Minor device numbers were, but don't think that would necessarily help since the numbers under udev are allocated differently. Also, there doesn't seem to be any "default" config files setup for uucp anymore (I think it had some commented-out line that, commented-in, enabled cua0, but it has been a while. Is there a better way to do this these days? I also need to know how to do this to be able to connect to local devices that provide a serial port for management (when managing them sans-network). Eventually, I'd like to be able to use the serial port as mTest's console (as it's not always convenient to find a 'head' to attach it to (esp. right now with the VGA-monitor in that room having died recently :-))... TIA... Linda -- 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 brightness question
by Mike McMullin 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

I have (re-)installed the nVIDIA driver for Linux (December 29, 2007) using the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.07-pkg1.run package downloaded from their web site. I have noticed something that I'd like to either understand or correct. When I view an You-tube video in Linux the video tends to not be as bright as watching the video under XP=Home on the same hardware setup. Is this a driver issue or an X issue, and how can I resolve the difference if at all possible. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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