January 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Logitech Quickcam 9000
by Bryen 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I have installed the uvc driver for Logitech Quickcam 9000 which is supported according to uvc website. The driver is verified as running. In HWINFO, the usb port shows as Logitech unclassified device. As near as I can tell.. the driver and the usb device are not seeing each other. Has anyone else installed and gotten it working? Thanks, -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to replace drive containing /swap ??
by David C. Rankin 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Listmates, Critical situation. Server running 100G drive. The drive started to fail. Plenty of backups available and I was able to recovered all data to another server. Installed fresh 250G sata drives configured in hardware raid (sdb and sdc). Used the /swap from the failing drive (sda) for install purposes because I didn't was to put swap on the raid. Fresh 10.3 install replacing last mandrake server went fine. Server runs fine, just gives occasional /sda offline errors. Problem, the old drive with /swap is sda, the /swap partition is sda5. The sda drive must be replaced, but how? The question: "Can I just install a new sda, and boot and then partition a new /swap with yast, or, will the boot process freak out when /swap isn't available and cause the boot to fail?" I'm going to try it, but if someone else has done this and has advise to help avoid any "gotchas", I would definitely appreciate a heads up. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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] ZMD runs flat out?
by Simon Roberts 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

----- Original Message ---- From: Benji Weber <b.weber(a)warwick.ac.uk> To: opensuse list <opensuse(a)opensuse.org> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 8:25:33 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] ZMD runs flat out? On 05/01/2008, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > In opensuse 10.2, on a dual core 64 bit CPU, I've noticed that the zmd updater thingy has a sub-process "update-status" which seems to run flat out from time to time. Typically it will do this immediately after startup, but it' does it at other times too. The symptoms are that one core of the CPU starts to run at 100%, and since this is a laptop, inevitably the fan starts to run flat out and the battery drain goes up a lot. This process seems to run for a long time (more than 15 minutes). > > This seems wrong to me. I don't know what it's doing exactly, but I assume it's checking my software versions against some central repository, so one would assume it should be IO bound looking at the disk or the network for most of its life. > > Obviously, I "should update to 10.3", but this is a working machine (in the sense that I make my living using it), so such an exercise isn't trivial and despite several other "compelling" reasons to do so, I'd really prefer to avoid doing that at least for a while longer. If you uninstall ZMD (and its dependencies, you can use yast) you will get opensuse-updater tray applet instead. See http://opensuse-community.org/Repositories/10.2#Disable_ZMD or just remove it in yast -> software management. -- Benjamin Weber ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, that's simple enough :) Many thanks, I'll give it a go. Cheers, Simon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Adding files to an ISO
by James Knott 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Is it possible to mount an ISO, and files to it and then save it so that it can then be used to create a CD with the new file included? Is there a better way to do this? tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] DVD-RW problem
by Istvan Gabor 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hello: I have this strange problem: I have burned data onto a TDK DVD-RW by a Pioneer DVR-108 DVD writer (burned an ISO image with k3b). After burning I have checked the DVD by ejecting and reinserting the DVD: my openSUSE 10.3 system could mount the DVD. I compared the conctent of the DVD and that of the hard drive and all the files were binary equal, so the DVD is OK. On another computer (openSUSE 10.2 system) with a NEC ND- 3540 DVD writer I can't mount the DVD. The system recognizes it as a blank DVD. What can be the problem and how could I solve it? TIA, IG ________________________________________________________ A karácsony elmúlt…Ragaszd albumba a pillanatot! 50 db kép csak 1299 Ft! http://www.fotokidolgozas.origo.hu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ssh
by Tage Danielsen 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hello I have a suse 10.0 server running and OK. Now I have installed a new machine running suse 10.3 and I want to make ssh connection from this machine to other suse machines. I get the error: warning: Authentication failed. Disconnected; no more authentication methods available (No further authentication methods available.). When I try ssh -X it come with error that the option -X Fatal error, -X is not allowed. Can someone guide me to use the ssh so I can connect to other systems Best regards Tage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] mounting USB memory stick
by jpff 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I managed to update from 10.2 to 10.3 over the break (with the usual confusions) on my laptop (IntelPentium M) and so far most seems to be working, except that the mounting of memory sticks no longer works. I used to use ivman as a user (non-root) but not when I run it it does not mount. I took a look at the configuration files but they are beyond my understanding. I suspect this is a hdX->sdX effect but what do I need to fix? ==John ffitch "This research is of insufficient standard" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] package conflicts in openSUSE 10.3
by Istvan Gabor 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hello: I would like to install videolan verison of VLC. When I select it in YAST software manager YAST reports many conflicts: #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2008-01-03 20:51:30 #### No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture. With this run only resolvables with the best architecture have been regarded. Regarding all possible resolvables takes time, but can come to a valid result. Conflict Resolution: ( ) Make a solver run with ALL possibilities. vlc cannot be installed due to missing dependencies There are no installable providers of libavformat.so.52 for vlc-0.8.6d-4.3.i586[VLC] === vlc-0.8.6d-4.3.i586[VLC] === vlc-0.8.6d-4.3.i586[VLC] will be installed by the user. glibc-2.6.1-18.i686 is needed by vlc-0.8.6d- 4.3.i586[VLC] (libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)) ncurses-5.6-41.i586 is needed by vlc-0.8.6d- 4.3.i586[VLC] (libncurses.so.5) 67 more... Conflict Resolution: ( ) do not install vlc ( ) Ignore this requirement just here #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### But I have glibc, ncurses and the other indicated packages installed: glibc-i18ndata-2.6.1-18.3 glibc-locale-2.6.1-18.3 glibc-2.6.1-18 glibc-devel-2.6.1-18 ncurses-5.6-41 yast2-ncurses-2.15.27-16 libgcc42-4.2.1_20070724-17 libogg-1.1.3-74 xorg-x11-libICE-7.2-61 Why is YAST still missing them? Why does it report conflicts? My repositories are located on the hard drive and set up in YAST as local package repositories. Can it cause this problem? TIA, IG ________________________________________________________ A karácsony elmúlt…Ragaszd albumba a pillanatot! 50 db kép csak 1299 Ft! http://www.fotokidolgozas.origo.hu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wireless setup worked once on 10.3
by GR 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I've got a Dell Laptop with Broadcomm 4300 wireless card in it. The very first time I setup wireless, I installed the firmware as per instructions on the web. I managed to connect to my wireless lan (802.11g, hidden SSID, WPA-2 encryption) fine with KNetworkManager. However, since that one and only time, I've never been able to connect to my wireless LAN again. KNetworkManager keeps on telling me that it's found a "new" wireless network (*MY* wireless network) but I can't connect to it. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get this working again (or at least switch on some debgugging so I can see where it's going wrong) ? I'm running 32bit 10.3, up-to-date with patches. Thanks, GR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] boot sheme and GRUB install
by jdd 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I was recently directed to the not so old page http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub What should be may be set more visible is some changes versus the usual (Lilo?) Linux way of configuring the boot system. We where all told than Linux don't care about the way the BIOS or Windows boot, specially ignore the "boot" flag of the partitions, when Windows dont. I think it should be usefull to write (and advertise) a page "booting Linux" or "booting openSUSE" with the relevant part of the quoted page (and other) - I can do if it's not already done. As a brief summary: * the MBR should be generic and YaST can write one (how??) * GRUB should not be written in the MBR (this should be visible from the YaST page!) * GRUB (stage1) should be written in a primary partition. There is always at least one on a disk, even if this one is the extended one. * YaST makes a very good job as boot loader install what must be said is that the latter is not completely true. I don't know if it's a bug or a feature :-(, nor if this is still the case on openSUSE 11, but when you are on the YaST page where you setup the place where GRUB is installed, one can clic several options altogether, but not all are written or the work is not clear :-() specially, I spend some time now working on installs to an USB key. I work to an other drive (not the first HDD) and don't want the first HDD to take track of this install the quoted page don't say really how GRUB manage this. This is probably a BIOS problem, but I don't want to discuss this here and now, it's OT on this thread jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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