January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Intel gfx card issues with openSUSE 11.1
by Rafa Grimán 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi :) Sorry for cross-posting, but not sure whether one or the other list should be e-mailed. Seems to me that both are eligeble 0;) Just installed openSUSE 11.1 on my Asus R2Hv and I'm having issues with my gfx card (see lspci below). If I use the "i810" driver I get this error: [...] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found But if I use the "intel" driver I get this other error: Couldn't find PLL settings for mode! I've been looking through bugzilla and found that this issue was detected during the Beta phase and has been closed as "fixed": https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432422 Seems xorg/X11 Intel gfx drivers need a patch and seems it's been applied (bugzilla says so), but doesn't seem to work for me :( I've tried adding these lines to xorg.conf, but still doesn't work: BusID "0:2:0" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Also tried using the VESA driver, no go. ¿Any ideas, hints, tips, ...? BTW, lspci -nnvv gives me this: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [Class 0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:12f7] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at feb80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at feb40000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:02.1 Display controller [Class 0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2792] (rev 04) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:12f7] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at fea80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- TIA Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman(a)skype.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] Re: screensaver during video
by Jim Henderson 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:43:30 -0600, Constantinos Maltezos wrote: > This has been happening as long as I can remember it, but I finally > figured I'd ask about it. > > Using dragonplayer or either kaffeine, when I play a video - whether > it's a DVD or a standalone - I have to move the mouse every few minutes > or the screensaver kicks in. I don't mind that happening with > flash-based movie viewers like on youtube, but the fact that I haven't > seen this issue brought up before makes me think that perhaps it's just > me with the regular video players. And I've looked for it. I know mplayer has an option that disables xscreensaver specifically, but I don't know if it works with gnome-screensaver. You can manually disable the screensaver - under GNOME the command is gnome-screensaver-command --exit - I'm sure there's a similar command for running under KDE. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- 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 desktop effects, ATI
by Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I'm trying to get desktop effects to work in KDE 4.1.3 (openSUSE 11.1 x86_64) and not having much luck. I'm curious if any of you have have similar hardware and are having any luck. I have it working on a laptop with a 256 MB nVidia card, and it runs really slick. But in the desktop, I've got a DELL Optiplex GX620, which came with an ATI Radeon X600 video card. I've not had good luck with ATI on Linux... openSUSE setup detected the card and installed drivers that are fairly satisfactory for 2D. With the desktop effects in mind, I went to ati.amd.com and downloaded the latest Linux x86_64 driver (i.e ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run). Once the ATI driver had installed, I ran 'aticonfig --initial' as root and rebooted. I tried enabling KDE 4's desktop effects and got this: -------------- Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values. Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type. -------------- I've checked my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, which doesn't show any sort of error that I can see. The aticonfig command reports that there is a 'fglrx' section, and I can attest to that. This is what I have in my xorg.conf file (among a few other things, of course): -------------- Section "Device" Identifier "Device[0]" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE)" Option "monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection -------------- At this point I'm thinking that maybe my video card isn't supported, I am missing some dependencies of some kind, or that my xorg.conf file needs some tweaking. Anyone willing to take a shot at this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Auto Kernel OOPs submission!!
by Greg Freemyer 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I don't know what caused it but my machine (KDE) was going a little wacky. I rebooted and after KDE started I got a dialog box that an oops had been detected and I just had to click submit or something to send it in. I'm not sure what the issue was, but the oops is at: http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=189171 Does anyone know the life cycle of these reports. Who gets notified? etc? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] Firefox Java plugin misbehaving
by Philippe Andersson 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello, For some time now (a few months), I've had problems accessing some (not all !) java-based web servicse: the applet won't start, and the system typically displays a high CPU load. Originally, I linked it with the upgrade to "update10" of the Sun Java plugin, but reverting to update9 (or even to Java1.5 for that matter) didn't resolve the issue. I was hoping that applying update11 (I just did) would restore the service, but it didn't either. My setup: - OpenSuSE 11.00, 32bit, fully patched - Firefox 3.0.5 - java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u11-0.1 Example of applets/services that work: - iLO virtual media - Juniper SSG5 firewall admin interface - HP Procurve switch (5406) web-based management interface - some silly clock applet Example of applets/services that don't: - iLO remote console (has been flaky since moving the FF 3, but used to mostly work) - Juniper Secure Access VPN (used to work fine) - Planisware OPX2 Intranet Server (not tested before) Java in general (i.e. locally, not through the browser) works fine. Has anyone else seen this ? Any help is appreciated. TIA Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan(a)iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Re: [opensuse] KDE4 desktop effects, ATI
by Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

clarkt(a)cnsp.com wrote: >> -------------- >> Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration >> options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values. >> >> Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced >> options, especially changing the compositing type. >> -------------- >> > Go to /usr/lib/dri and move fglrx_dri.so to flgrx_dri.so.org. Then do a > ln -s /usr/lib64/dri/flgrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/. > > That will fix the problem. > I actually tried that last night after I posted, and no, it didn't fix the problem. That got me past glxinfo errors, but KDE still refuses to take it. I tried XRender, but the effects are so choppy, slow and outright buggy that I can't use it. OpenGL is still a no go. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with popping in audio and stuttering graphics...
by Clayton 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I'm trying to trace down a problem I'm having with openSUSE 11.1. The symptoms are basically popping audio (periodic) and graphics slowdows. The audio popping is most noticeable in games where there is a fairly high demand on system resources. The audio is... crackly at times.. it cycles from perfect to poor. The audio problem also happens, for example, what I browse to a webpage that has embedded audio, or a flash video (eg YouTube). Then the audio pops (or rips) once very loudly a bit like "dragging the needle" sounded like on old records. It's very fast, very loud, and then audio plays normally. The graphics "slowdowns" are basically a huge drop in fps (pick any native Linux OpenGL game or any game playing in Cedega/Wine or whatever, it happens consistently in all OpenGL games) from, for example 70fps, down to 3 or 4 fps, and then after a few seconds, back up to 70 again. The OS is an openSUSE 11.1, default install plus the multimedia extras from the community repos ======== Kernel is 2.6.27.7-9-pae 32 bit ======== Hardware - AMD Athlon X2 6400+ - 4 GB RAM - nvidia 260GTX video card with nVidia binary drivers 180.18 Beta - Soundblaster 5.1 ======== One possibility suggested to me was that it might be a kernel thing... at least for the graphics, and suggested I try a 2.6.24 kernel... I haven't taken this step yet. I hate messing with kernels... unless it's a last resort. Overall, I would almost suspect that there is something running in the background that is periodically doing something... some task that is killing system performance. The usual suspects are removed... Beagle and Strigi are not installed, and Nepomuk is not running. I've checked all running services and shut down all but the essentials but it has had no effect. Anyone here have any ideas or suggestions... what can I do to trace this down? C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] screensaver during video
by Constantinos Maltezos 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

This has been happening as long as I can remember it, but I finally figured I'd ask about it. Using dragonplayer or either kaffeine, when I play a video - whether it's a DVD or a standalone - I have to move the mouse every few minutes or the screensaver kicks in. I don't mind that happening with flash-based movie viewers like on youtube, but the fact that I haven't seen this issue brought up before makes me think that perhaps it's just me with the regular video players. And I've looked for it. -- 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 Devel-Kernel Repositories
by Rui Santos 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi all, There used to be builds of recent Kernels, including RC's on openSUSE Repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ There hasn't been a build of 2.6.28.x or 2.6.29-rcx, ever. I can recompile my own Kernel if needed but, if find an already pre-compiled rpm, I'll use it. Does anyone know of a repository that has this kind of Kernel's ? Thanks -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fork Burst Every 5 Minutes
by Randall R Schulz 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi, I've noticed by watching GKrellM that every five minutes there's a brief burst of about 170 forks within a period of a second or so on my openSUSE 11.1 system. I wonder: 1) Does anyone know what this might be? 2) How might I learn what process is performing these forks? Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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