January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] OS 11.1 / KDE4 - keyboard lockup
by Greg Freemyer 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Patrick Shanahan <paka(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> * Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> [11-14-08 15:22]: >>> >>> i'm sure a reboot will fix my problem, but for experimentation sake >>> i'm trying to avoid that. >>> >>> i'm running os 11.0 fully patched and my usb keyboard has quit >>> allowing me to type chars that require a shift key. and the caps lock >>> does not work. >>> >>> i also have vmware instance with xp in it. the shift key is working >>> fine in there, so obviously the hardware is fine. >>> >>> i have tried removing an re-inserting my usb cable. no effect. >>> >>> any other ideas before i get frustrated and reboot. >> >> maybe: rckbd restart >> >> should re-read the keyboard configuration, and you might try reload >> first instead of restart? >> The above only happened once with 11.0 Since upgrading to 11.1, I have had the keyboard totally lockup on me twice now. ie. Not just the shift key etc, Nothing on the keyboard is working during these lockups. I'm running KDE 4. I don't currently have any remote access to my desktop machine setup, so the only solution I have had is to use the mouse to logout of KDE. Once the login prompt comes up, I am able to type again and enter my password. I'm still using a USB keyboard and I have attempted to unplug / replug the usb connector. It has no impact. Is this a known problem? As to a work around I have other machines at the office, so I'm going to enable sshd and will try to remotely login and do the rckbd restart the next time it happens. 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] 11.1 featured in Linux Magazine
by Kai Ponte 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Not a full review, but they are including the distro: ------------------------- On the DVD: openSUSE 11.1 ------------------------- This month we bring you openSUSE 11.1: * Hundreds of apps for home, office, and Internet * Hassle-free install with advanced hardware detection * Latest software: KDE 3.5.10 + 4.1.3, Gnome 2.24, Firefox 3.0.4, OpenOffice.org 3.0 http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2009/99/opensuse_11_1 -- 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 - of grub,md/lvm root, and related headaches
by Moby 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

I have had a system running fine since oss 10.1 (upgraded from there on to the current nightmare that is 11.1). Here is the system disk layout: Two 300 GB SATA hard drives - sda and sdba sda1 and sdb1 are 130 MG, them mirrored using md raid into /dev/md0. /dev/md0 has ext3 mounted as /boot. sda2 and sdb2 are 1 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md1. /dev/md1 is swap. sda3 and sdb3 are 274 GB, then mirrored using md raid into /dev/md2. /dev/md2 has lvm on it, with / being /dev/system/system. Grub installed in mbr of sda. This system has been running great. I upgraded in-place from 11.0 to 11.1, and everything was still fine. Then I built a custom kernel (as I have done with all other versions - the only thing I change is set the processor type). During the custom kernel install phase, make modules_install worked fine, but I noticed some weird device-mapper "no such file or device" error message during make install. I did not think much of it (probably a BIG mistake). Verified new vmlinuz and initrd were in place and /boot/grub/menu.lst looked kosher. Rebooted the system, and it went to pot. On reboot, the machine displays the word "GRUB" and just hangs there. Only thing I can do at that point is to reboot. Booted from 11.1 install disk, went into "repair installed system", no joy - this "repair installed system" did not see any md devices, nor any lvs. Booted from 11.1 install disk, went into rescue mode. I was able to mount all my partitions successfully, I was able to chroot to my original root, go into yast etc. I reinstalled grub to mbr of sda, no errors. I googled and found a fix for the device mapper errors during mkinitrd (it had to do with a bug in Tools.pm), re-made and installed the kernel etc. Rebooted the system, same behavior, it just hangs after printing GRUB. At this point, I have done about everything I can think of to revive it to no joy. Finally I made a grub boot CD, and have it use the kernel and initrd in place on the hard drives, and the system comes up fine. I am completely lost as to why grub will not boot from the HDD. I have tried reinstalled Grub to theMBR, as well as to the boot sector of the active parition (/dev/sda1) to no avail. During googling for solutions, I read bits and pieces about how oss 11.1 uses a different mechanism for mkinitrd, something about relying on device mapper etc. While I do not fully understand what the changes are, I hope someone on the list does and can readily see what could be ailing my system and suggest a way out. In the meantime, the system continues to run after booting from a CD. Thanks in advance for any help, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Wolfgang - 11.0 Tbird, any way to assign the 'del' key to 'd' for messages view?
by David C. Rankin 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

List (mostly for Wolfgang): On 11.0 in thunderbird is there any way to assign 'del' to the 'd' key to make the 'd' key work as delete while in the message view window? Any of your brilliant: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command blah blah commands up your sleeve? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- 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 Graphics Cards on openSuse
by Jim Flanagan 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Greetings all, I have moved away from ATi cards for a year or so now, and am considering upgrading the card on one box. Before I blindly go out a get an Nvidia card I wanted to check here to see if the situation with the Ati drivers had improved. Does anyone have any recent experiences with these newer card and openSuse, good or bad. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] madwifi RPMS for 11.1 (temporary)
by David C. Rankin 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Listmates, With the trouble getting my Toshiba Atheros wireless working and without madwifi rpms available, I built a set from the latest svn build of madwifi and created a repository for 11.1. I only have 256K of upstream bandwidth, so if anyone else wants to copy them and host them until the Buildservice rpms are done, that would help. You can find the repository and a bit of additional information here: http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/openSuSE111-install.php#madwifi -- 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] Digikam refuse to start
by Martin /Nightowl/ Byttebier 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hello, I recently installed OpenSuse 11.1 and I just discovered Digikam won't run at all. When Digikam started from shell I get this: digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libdigikam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory tos4ever@linux-u3sk:/opt/kde3/lib> ls -l |grep libdigikam.so.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 jan 4 00:33 libdigikam.so.0 -> libdigikam.so.0.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5052864 dec 3 14:58 libdigikam.so.0.0.0 I'm using digikam-0.9.4-51.18 What can I do to get Digikam working? TIA, Martin -- UTSI: http://users.telenet.be/tos4ever/utsi.htm Atari FTP-site: ftp://kurobox.serveftp.net:3021 -- 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] KDE4 fileassociations
by Hans de Faber 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Jose Thadeu Cavalcante schreef: > On Monday 05 January 2009 06:58:37 Hans de Faber wrote: >> Where can I set in KDE4 the file associations ? >> >> Prosperous new Year for all Open Software (prod)users !!! > Hi, > > Open System Settings, then Advanced tab File Associations. > > Good New Year, > > Thadeu > > Bad start this year, I even can't find "System settings", where should it be? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Tymeshare ??
by James Hatridge 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi all, I worked for Tymeshare back around 1980 in Dallas. Does anyone know what happened to this company? Thanks, JIMm -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.WartHogBulletin.de Many Enemies -- Much Honor! Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.manyenemies-muchhonor.info An American in Bavaria http://www.gaubodengalerie.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ivtv on 11.1 i586
by Mike McMullin 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

I'm trying to configure my Hauppage150 on 11.1, on 10,3 it loaded three drivers, ivtv, ivtv-firmware, and ivtv-kmp-default, and had the -default kernel. On 11.1 the kernel is pae and drivers available are ivtv and ivtv-firmware. Looking in YaST at what's available to install, i see that ivtv is provided by the oss repo, and the ivtv-firmware is provided by the non-oss repo (and is on the oss repo as well), but the ivtv-kmp-default (or any other kernel flavour) is un-available. So do i need the kmp-kernel flavour or not, even though the TV-Card module notes that the module is not installed and loses the info after you finish with the configure of the TV-Card? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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