February 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] ATI fglrx driver problems
by Anton Moiseev 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi, I have almost the same system configuration - opensuse 10.3, ati x1900xt and dual core athlon and I have also recently connected TV as the 2nd monitor. The solution is not to use SAX to configure dual head mode - you need to run ATI Catalist control center: >amdcccle or find it in System/Configuration/Ati catalist... ATI fglrx does not use standard xinerama - it can be configured for dual head only with its own closed solution. Hope this would be changed in future releases of apen drivers. I would also say that initially I also wanted to configure the TV with SAX, but gave up and decided to find the solution in inet. On Feb 11, 2008 6:46 PM, Per Jessen <per(a)computer.org> wrote: > Marc Chamberlin wrote: > > > I have been working on trying to get a new system up an running for a > > media center and guess you might say I have gotten a bit frustrated > > with it. I am running SuSE 10.3 on a dual core Athelon x64 system with > > the ATI Radeon x1900 card. I need to run this as a dual head system, > [big snip] > > > > Marc... who is beginning to regret ever having bought an ATI video > > card... > > Marc, I've using the very same driver for my Radeon X1650 card - no > probs whatsoever. > > I think you ought to fold the [big snip] above into a bug report to > Novell: http://bugzilla.novell.com/ > > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.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] Why can't I use "shutdown now" to turn off my system?
by Kermit Mei 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hello! I'm using openSuse 10.3 Linux in VirtualBox,and I just installed the text mode. I use the command "shutdown now" to turn off the machine. But the result is as the following: linux-Kermit:~# shutdown now The system message from root (tty1)(Mon Feb ......<the time> ): INIT: Switching to runlevel: 1 <snip> Why the system goes to runlevel:1,but not shutdown? Is "shutdown now" different from "init 1"? Now I ususlly use "init 0" to turn off the machine,is it right or wrong? Thank you! -- 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: [opensuse-offtopic] More for Al Gore
by Aaron Kulkis 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Basil Chupin wrote: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 17:01, Anders Johansson wrote: >>>> ... >>>> >>>> Well, here's non-anecdotal >>>> >>>> http://www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10918&a=33093&l=sv >>>> >>>> In Sweden, this January was one of the warmest in a century, and in >>>> one location, it was the warmest January since they began measuring >>>> in 1879 >>>> >>>> smhi, in case you're wondering, is the Swedish government's >>>> meteorological institute >>>> >>>> Anders >>>> >>>> PS. Here's another anecdotal story for you: here in Nuremberg I'm >>>> walking outside in a t-shirt in February. >>> >>> While my adopted home town of Madison Wisconsin has surpassed the >>> historical record for snowfall in a single season. >>> >>> Increasing the amount of thermal energy to the atmosphere as a whole >>> makes everything more extreme and chaotic. >> >> That's just propaganda meant to "waterproof" the Global >> Warming hoax...from any and all contradictory evidence. > > > As far as I am concerned this is nothing but a lefties plot to bring > down the capitalist economies of the world and to thwart Superman's > fight for "truth, justice and the American way." > Pretty much. The engine of personal freedom is cheap energy. "Global Warming" (just like the "imminent Ice Age" fraud BY THE SAME SUSPECTS in the 1970's) is just an excuse to tax or otherwise restrict energy so that the common person is completely beholden to the government. In the Soviet Union, they accomplished the goal by keeping convenience appliances out of the hands of the public, so that everyone was (and oftentimes, still are) stuck washing their clothes by hand, etc. In Russia, even to this day, a washing machine in the home is still not taken for granted -- the currency was massively devalued (by a factor of 2000!) through hyper-inflation in the mid 1990's, so that all those years of savings (unspent wages since the stores were mostly empty) would NOT be used to purchase the everyday appliances which we consider to be essential to allowing us to get our work done and also get our personal work done, and still have some time left over for other things... > Ciao. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A Quick Start - VirtualBox Howto
by David C. Rankin 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Listmates, Just had my first experience with XP running in VirtualBox and ...wow... this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Most all of the following information was taken from the VirtualBox help file provided in /usr/share/doc/packages/VirtualBox. Here is a quick howto I put together while installing and configuring virtualbox. I hope you find it useful: Pre-Install: (1) If you would like to take a look at the user manual before taking the plunge, grab it here: wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf Install: (1) If you have installed vbox OSE, Remove remove it and download the binary SuSE rpm from VirtualBox (for both 10.2 and 10.3). The openSuSE vb will work fine, but the binary from virtualbox provides a few additional features. Software Management to remove OSE; or sudo rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep virtual) (2) Check/Install pam-devel sudo zypper in pam-devel (3) Download the vb binary from the virtualbox web site for usb functionality wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE103… (4) Install vb sudo rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE103-1.i586.rpm The kernel modules are automatically built by: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Post Install: (1) 20:07 Rankin-P35a~> sudo modprobe vboxdrv (2) Edit your /etc/group file and add yourself to the vboxusers group or use Yast->Group Management to do the same thing. 20:14 Rankin-P35a~> grep vbox /etc/group vboxusers:x:113:david (3) Starting VirtualBox and Setting up your First Virtual Machine: (1) Start vb from: the start menu "System->Emulator->innotek VirtualBox" or; the commandline with "VirtualBox" (2) Create your first virtual machine by choosing "New" from the menu bar (3) Follow the prompts to allocate RAM and the virtual hard disk space for your guest OS. For windows XP as a guest OS 512M of RAM and 10G of virtual hard disk space is sufficient. You can get away with 384M of ram and still have a fast virtual machine, just don't go crazy with simultaneous applications. To see what you can spare, from a console, check your available ram with "free -tm" and disk free space with "df -h") Note: the RAM allocated is taken away from your Host OS (openSuSE) while the guest OS is running. So if your total RAM is 1G and you allocate 512M for your guest OS, that leaves you only 512M for your original host OS. Also Note: the virtual hard disk space is allocated by default under your home directory which places the virtual disk on your /home parition. This is a good thing since under the default openSuSE install your /home partition has the greatest amount of disk space. Laptop Note: by default vb assigns the "right control" key as the "hostkey" that is used to transfer keyboard and mouse control to and from the virtual machine when it is running. Many laptops do not have a "right control" key. In vb under File->Preferences, you can easily set the hostkey to the "right alt" key which is a good logical replacement. Installing Windowx XP as the guest OS: You can either install XP using the install cd or you can create and .iso file from the cd and mount the image as the cd drive for installing XP. The benifit of installing from the .iso image is that file transfer rates are much better than reading from the actual cd and allows the XP install to be completed in as little as 10 minutes instead of the usual 40-60 minutes. To create the iso, simply use dd. (example dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/win_install_disk.iso) You can then mount the iso directly as the cdrom seen by the gues machine. Installing XP is the same as the regular install: (1) Just pop the cd in your drive or select the .iso to mount as the cd drive. (2) Press "Start" to boot the guest os and start the install, continue as usual. (3) Configure Windows to your liking; Installing the VirtualBox "guest additions" Install VBoxGuestAdditions.iso which contains the additions that integrate the host and guest mouse and provide virtual display drivers that allow you to resize your guest window to virtually any size. The iso is located in: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (1) use the "Devices" menu to Mount CD/DVD-ROM and then navigate to and select the /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file. The installer will automatically run if you have autoload enabled, if not go the cdrom and run setup.exe (2) After the install has completed shutdown and restart your guest os and you will have all of the additional mouse/keyboard and display additions. (they are cool) If for some reason the driver install hangs on your hardware, just use the "Machine Menu" and "Reset" the guest os. The changes will take effect on restart. Thats it! I have been running virtualbox for a couple of days XP, Quickbooks Pro all work great! No rebooting ever just to get to the accounting software now. A thanks to all that pointed me towards VirtualBox! -- 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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[opensuse] removing the patterns in YaST
by Sergey Mkrtchyan 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

List, Now I'm surprised how to remove the patterns from YaST. I go, YaST -> Software Management -> Filter: Patterns, and there I have 4 "Installs compiz, Fusion Plugins..." under the Desktop Functions section. I agree the fact that I have 4 there is my fault, because I was using one click install from the website and apparently installed it 4 times (I know, really bad), but now I've uninstalled all of the compiz, and just want to get rid of that patterns. Is that possible? Thanks a lot. Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, PhD Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ATI Radeon FireGL V5200, IBM/Lenovo Z61p, X won't start
by Verner Kjærsgaard 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi list, - SUSE10.3/KDE/plain vanilla. I just downloaded from the ATI-driver site, the "ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run" I switched to runlevel 3 and installed it. Without a hitch. (I tried from within X also, same results as below stated...) From within a terminal window, as root, I do: aticonfig --initial - this goes well, it modifies xorg.conf and all. When I subsequently start X, my entire machine goes into a black, dead state. Black screen, all terminals are dead. Network is alive, I can SSH into machine. Here, as root, "init 3" doesn't do anything. Only the wintendo solution works...hold the off keydown to switch it off. Then, when booting, set it to boot into level 3. I'm back into text mode. I may now copy my old (I DID save it) xorg.conf file into place and start X. But that's not much fun. When I do: lspci, I get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200] I done my Google :-), no vail...Any hints...?? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypp slowness after update
by Joe Morris 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Has anyone else noticed that zypp seems to have slowed down after the recent update, or is it just me. It still works, but seems to be running so slow, refreshes are just crawling along. It may be me, it is kinda subjective, maybe something else in my system. Just wondering.... -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] set encoding for console
by Paul Neuwirth 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello, I am using a DEC VT510 console and UTF-8 as encoding on the whole system. But - of course - the serial console doesn't. How can I set the encoding for this console specific? By the way, how can i set lines/cols without using the stty command after each login. Thanks for your help, Paul Neuwirth -- If this fortune didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.

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[opensuse] S-ATA hardware RAID controller
by Paul Neuwirth 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello, can someone recommend a real hardware RAID S-ATA Controller compatible with Linux (openSUSE 10.3). I need a RAID 10 array (therefore I got 4 S-ATA II HDD each 500GB). I use a Silicon Image 3124 Controller, and have got a hardware RAID controller / port multiplier (SiI4726), which was pronounced to be compatible with Linux. But there's only a proprietary support for some distributions and kernels (i.e. some SLES Kernel). So it's working as port multiplier but, raid is not configurable with Linux. Using of linux software raid (dmraid) is not possible - it causes too heavy cpu load. Thanks for your help, Paul Neuwirth -- "His great aim was to escape from civilization, and, as soon as he had money, he went to Southern California."

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[opensuse] Releasing openSUSE Alphas with debuginfo/symbols installed by default
by Alexey Eremenko 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi ! I would like discuss a new idea: releasing openSUSE Alpha CDs/DVDs with debuginfo/symbols, so people will install that by default. That may ease reproduction of crashes. BETAs/RC/Final don't really need this. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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