September 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Window reaction settings??
by John Bennett 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, I was really brave and I have my wife using Suse11, but I have a bit of a prob. I've enabled Compiz and effects, which I believe was working OK, but recently, the windows have started behaving strangely... (I think she may have been playing, but of course, denies it!!) The following is when using Konqueror: When you hover the mouse over the 'normal' close button (top-right X), the button gets a red border, and the behaviour is not really predictable - it may close the window, but more often than not, it'll bring another konqueror window to the top, and then can't bring the previous back on top. The minimise and restore buttons are not behaving 'normally', either. Have temporarily fixed it by turning Compiz off, but that's a no-no as well, 'cause the main thing she likes about suse/compiz is using the Desktop cube. Have tried turning of stuff and setting window decoration/behaviour to defaults, but nothing seems to fix it.. Ideas?? Probably something really basic, but I can't find it... Thanks in advance. John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Garbled/Unusable X on new laptop after installation.
by Kevin Dupuy 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

So I'm writing this from Windows Vista now, becuase I'm having some major issues with openSUSE 11.0. On my new laptop (specs at bottom of post), I've freshly installed openSUSE 11.0 w/ default GNOME software selection. During the installation everything goes normal, with the exception that it doesn't detect my resolution (using 1024x768 instead of my laptop's resolution of 1600x900). After first boot, the graphical GRUB menu comes up fine, but once openSUSE boots, there's no bootsplash and the text looks like it's in an extremely low resolution (640x480, perhaps?). The real kicker is when firstboot/the graphical system is loaded, it completely begins going crazy. It goes into a gray-streaked screen, which slowly begins fading into a dark gray streaks in spots around the screen. Nothing comes up, no cursor, no text, nothing. Just that fading screen. Here's the relevent info: Sony Vaio VGN-FW190 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8400 Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD 16.4" (1600x900) TFT All the help I can get will be greatly appreciated ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Gnome 2.24
by Michael S. Dunsavage 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I was wondering, now that Gnome 2.24 is released, is there a 1-click install out there somewhere? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] NIC bonding
by Koenraad Lelong 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi Is anyone using bonding on their NIC's on 11.0 ? With 10.3 it's dead easy to do with yast : -Never activate, never get an IP for the NIC's -Create a bond and select the eth's a bond should contain. In 11.0, fully updated, I'm doing the same, but there is no choice of NIC's to add to the bond. What am I missing ? Thanks. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong

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[opensuse] Suspend2Ram fails sometimes
by Manne Merak 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

OpenSUSE10.3, NVIDIA, DellVostro1700. I have a working suspend to RAM setup. But, 1 out of 20 times it fails - it goes down as normal but when I open the lid of the notebook (usually how I start it again), it just boots from the start, as if it forgets that it was in suspend mode. The logs show normal suspend procedure and then nothing else. How can I determine if it is a BIOS or OS problem? Manne -- 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] 2 TB RAID5 limit
by James D. Parra 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Looks correct, but, why did you even bother with a disklabel or a partition at all in this case? ~~~ Because the msdos disklabel has a 2TB limit and I need more than 2TB. Couldn't create it through Yast, so parted did the trick. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] wine at 64-bit suse?
by Sampsa Riikonen 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Dear List, Has aynone succeeded in running windows programs using wine and a 64-bit system. .. is it even possible? Cheers, Sampsa -- 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] 2 TB RAID5 limit
by James D. Parra 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

>> Perhaps you are confused and talking about the 2TB limit of >> any single >> partition in an msdos disklabel? >> >> GPT disklabels have no such limit, and you can create a gpt >> disklabel in >> parted manually at the command line from the opensuse >> installer, but the >> grub 0.97 in opensuse won't boot from it (neither do some >> motherboard bios's >> so you better try with ubuntu or something first.) >> >> Grub2 understands GPT, but I have found no convenient way to >> get opensuse >> installed wirth a GPT disklabel and grub2. Ubuntu can. >> > I have an Adaptec card with 8 1TB drives set as raid 50 = 5.4 TB. Setting > the disk label to GPT looks interesting; how do I accomplish that? > > The OS (Suse 10.3) is on a separate system drive so I don't need to boot > from the raid. > > Thank you, > > ~James Have a look at this article. http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html succes, Hans ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Hans, excellent article. Did the following; parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 1.8.7 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) print Model: Adaptec RAID50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 6000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags (parted) mkpart primary xfs 0 6000GB (parted) print Model: Adaptec RAID50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 6000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 6000GB 6000GB primary , , , , , , , , , , , <snip> At this point from Yast I formatted the partition with XFS; (parted) parted /dev/sdb print Model: Adaptec RAID50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 6000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 6000GB 6000GB xfs primary , , , , , , , , , , , <snip> Does this look right? "df -s" shows the partition as; Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 5.5T 1.1M 5.5T 1% /data Thanks again, ~James Many thanks, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4 - What it could be
by Ben Kevan 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I just have to vent. I think I'd be _MORE_ open to testing KDE4, if there was a good repository layout meaning: KDE4:Stable:Desktop (with 4.1.1) KDE4:Stable:Community (with 4.1.1 fully compatible) Currently I have: KDE4:Factory:Desktop KDE4:Factory:Community(for factory yada yada.. whatever it's called) KDE4:QT However, not everytihng in the community repository would install because kde4-base 4.1.2 .. which isn't in the desktop factory.. just kinda blah.. I think i'll poke around and get it.. but I think many more testers would get it running better if they had a better method of testing the newest version prior to it being released in the next version of openSUSE. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Switch desktops by the screen edges
by Andrew Joakimsen 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Some time ago I configured that holding the cursor at the edge of the screen for N ms would switch desktops. On second thought that feature is rather annoying and now I can not find the option. Does anyone know where I can disable this feature? I use KDE 3.5. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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