January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] bug in kernel-source-2.6.27.13-2.1 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/
by Rainer Klier 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

hi list, i think, there is a bug in the latest factory-kernel 2.6.27.13-2 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/. at least the kernel source has a bug, i think. i tried to install latest nvidia-driver 180.22 on an opensuse11.1 x86_64 system. former kernel 2.6.27.12-1 had no problems with this. but this time, it was not possible to load nvidia kernel module. the installation-script stopped, and told me that the built kernel module can't be loaded. there were also warnings about missing symbols at compile time. this is the relevant part of dmesg-output when loading the driver: nvidia: Unknown symbol pv_mmu_ops nvidia: Unknown symbol pv_cpu_ops nvidia: Unknown symbol pv_irq_ops nvidia: Unknown symbol pv_lock_ops it seems, the above symbols are missing. this was not the case with 2.6.27.12-1. i had to downgrade kernel to latest available 2.6.27.7-9 from oss-repo. with this version building the nvidia driver also was no problem. right now i am writing this mail with this setup. there must have been some changes between 2.6.27.12-1 and 2.6.27.13-2 which have something to do with these missing symbols. does anybody know anything about this error? -- einen schönen Tag noch DI Rainer Klier Und bitte keine TOFU-Mails (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU) -- 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: questions related to KDE4 in opensuse 11.1
by jdd 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

>> 1. How can I hide the panel? you can, but this is not reliable: some apps are hiden anyway :-( How can I add hide buttons to the panel? AFAIK there are no more, so forget hiding the panel :-( >> 2. How can I place/mount removable devices, as USB flashdisk, >> floppy etc onto the desktop as before? probably no more necessary. This is IMHO the best thing of kde4, you have a dolphin left menu ("emplacements" in french) with all and any mounted device and there you can umount them safely >> 3. I do not like the 'kickoff' start menu so I always switch to >> the older mode. How can I add the recently used option there? I couldn't do this anymore. and worst, the recently used apps menu have only 4 entries and I don't know how add more (I use 8) Why >> can not I add application icons to the desktop and panel from >> this menu? only works in kiskoff. All this makes kickoff the only tru option, alas! 4. How can I set the font size of the digital clock in >> the panel? The fonts of the date are just too small. set the hight of the panel? right button or right clic, edit... >> For now it seem to me that KDE4 is more like gnome than classical >> (very nice, polished and useable) KDE3. I use many USB devices, so the new place menu is a must, it's the only thing that make me use kde4 jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] linux in multiboot
by Amedee Van Gasse 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hello, Currently I'm running OpenSuse 11.1 32bit on an 2GHz AMD Athlon64 with 3 GiB RAM. I have 3 SATA disks: 112 GiB + 112 GiB + 186 GiB. sda1, sdb1 and sdc1 are 1 GiB and form md0 (RAID1) where /boot lives. The rest of the disk space lives in LVM. I have: /dev/system/root = / = 50 GiB /dev/system/home = /home = 100 GiB /dev/system/swap = swap = 6 GiB That leaves me with 251 GiB unpartitioned in LVM. I would like to try 64bit Linux in a multiboot configuration, while still keeping my 32bit installation. I would make another LVM partition and share /boot, /home and swap. I could also run various other Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are on my list). I think I won't have a lot of troble seting this up, but there is one thing that worries me a bit: the /boot partition with the kernels and the grub config. 1 GiB is room enough for a lot of different kernels, but I'm worried that different Linux distributions have different ways of "automagically" configuring grub. What are the pitfalls that I should watch out for? Kind regards, Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] novell web site broke as heck
by Brian K. White 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

So, I go to log in to the novell web site to order the latest retail boxed dvd, as I have done since at least 9.1 But I get presented with some new form that demands I fill in some "required" profile info (that they have been living without all these years up to now somehow...) before allowing me to proceed. So, web forms and marketing databasing and registration annoy the hell out of me and I absolutely hate crap like this, but it's universal so I fill it in anyways even though I _hate_ doing so. I'm feeling so magnanimous that I even fill in the phone number field even though it was not marked as a required field. The submit fails and the redrawn form says more info required and the phone number field is empy. So apparently it wants a phone number despite being marked as optional, and although I had actually filled in a phone number, apparently it didn't like the format I had used with no dashes, spaces, or perens. Well now I'm annoyed and perversely don't want to fill in the phone number field (even though my cmpanies main public phone number is of course no secret), and my initial tolerance for playing along and cooperating with these forms which I hate is now gone and I'm back to my real feling of hating the whole form, let alone any particula field. So I hit the feedback link on the page and submit a feedback about the form being broken. The _feedback_ form breaks! 500 internal server error OK maybe my long winded message with cut & paste copy of my filled-in form with error message was too long for the feedback form to accept (although there is no message size limit displayed on the page). So I try to submit a new fedback about _that_ with the difference being a very short and plain message with no ususual cut&paste's in the message body, just a short sentence. THAT fails! Awsome! Why didn't I think of that ingenius way to improve my own companies support statistics? Just make the support and feedback mechanisms broken and voila! Hardly any support calls or negative feedback! Pure genius! I wonder if this last ditch manual email to support(a)novell.com will bounce? I give up. I just buy the retail box sets just to be nice and because I appreciate the work that goes into the distribution. But I don't need them. I don't think I've ever actually used one of the retail dvd's to do an actual install. I always do net installs from my own mirror or else I had already downloaded an iso weeks or months before I received my nice box. They're just there to look pretty on my shelf. I'm sure I could still order the box without logging in under my usual profile, or I'm sure simply filling in that phone number with dashes or some other formatting will satisfy the form, but now I'm all annoyed and uncooperative. So if the site wants to annoy me out of buying stuff, that's really no skin off my nose. Brian K. White brian(a)aljex.com http://profile.to/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mandatory updates in 11.1
by Klaas. 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hello, Today I started my 10.3 openSuse system and was greeted with the orange triangle telling me that there are 5 updates. On my openSuse 11.1 system the triangle never shows up. I cannot believe that there are no updates for that system so I assume something is lacking. I asked before and so this is probably too stupid to ask but please will some kind soul steer me in the right direction? thank you, Klaas Punt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] error javascript
by William Biggs 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

I get this error How do I fix it ? Fail to write content/metadata Would you like to disable beagle now -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.0 - Can't make A4 paper default go away
by Felix Miata 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Whenever I try to print for the first time in a new app or new user, nothing happens if I don't remember to go into the app's paper setup and select the proper paper. It seems this is because I own no A4 paper nor A4 paper trays, yet the system defaults to A4 paper. In YaST2 printer, after waiting eternally for repo data I didn't ask for to download, I select printer options for my only printer, and driver options default paper in your printer is grayed out and set to A4. How do I change the global default to letter? What mysterious file is set to A4? How do I eradicate the possibility of using A4 paper? Is it even possible to acquire A4 paper in the USA? -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] opensuse-11.1, x64 and isdn
by Josef Wolf 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hello, I had i4l running on various suse's (up to 10.0) since almost 10 years. Now I upgraded to 11.1 on AMD x64 hardware, and it stopped working. The drivers seem to load properly. But at the moment anything happens on the isdn bus, the system freezes and/or reboots immediately without any trace in any logfiles. I've glanced through the i4l FAQ, and it looks like the driver do not support 64 bit yet. Unfortunately, the FAQ is pretty much outdated, so I guess this information is not very accurate. Anybody knows the state of the i4l drivers on x64 hardware? Then there seems to be a project called mISDN. Looks like this is the successor of the i4l project. Anybody knows the state of this on x64? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Important system files/folders to back-up
by Jay Mistry 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

I am new to Linux in general & have just started out with openSUSE 11.1 (dual boot with Windows XP Profnl.) For Linux, what would be the critical system files that need to be backed-up (such as /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst, etc/fstab, etc...) ? Jay PS: In Windows for backup, I use Norton Ghost to make an image of the system (C:/) partition from time-to-time. Also, a utility called 'ERUNT' that automatically makes a backup copy of the registry each time Windows is booted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RFC: Tabbed Browsing for Packages
by Stefan Hundhammer 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Not everbody reads blogs, so I'd like to point you to this: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/23/tabbed-browsing-for-packages/ What do you think? Is this a good idea? CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh(a)suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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