November 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 11.2 I asked for UK keyboard, but got US :-(
by Bob Williams 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

New installation of 11.2 from 11.1 yesterday, using freshly burnt DVD, and standard Yast installer. I set my locale and keyboard to UK as usual - I remember waiting the couple of seconds while it 'downloads' the licence for me to read in my own language ;) Now that I'm up and running with a KDE 4.3.3 desktop, I've noticed that the keyboard is not UK. This should be a pound (hash) sign \ This should be a tilde | This should be double quotes (shifted 2) @ etc., etc. ISTR a Yast module for setting keyboard stuff, but I can't find it. Any suggestions, please? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.2 - how to configure which graphics driver gets used?? -> rebuild initramfs?
by David C. Rankin 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Guys, With the radeonhd sucking eggs on my laptop, how do I tell 11.2 to use a different module/driver? There is no xorg.conf anymore, so what way does opensuse use? Do we have to remake the initramfs, and if so, where is a link to a current howto? Thanks. -- 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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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuSE 11.2 and Virtual Box
by Bogdan Cristea 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

On Friday 20 November 2009 13:54:32 you wrote: > I tried to use fedora 64 bit version without any succes... > There are different binaries for different architectures. For 64 bits is qemu- system-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] 11.2 Horrible Screen Artifacts with Radeonhd for RS690M (ATI 1200)
by David C. Rankin 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Listmates, After the great install on the old laptop, I decided to install 11.2 on my newer old laptop (Toshiba 205d). This is the first suse install where the fglrx driver wasn't an option. With the new KMS graphics setup, the radeonhd driver was selected by default: (II) RADEONHD: version 1.3.0, built from non-git sources (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: <snip> ATI Radeon X1200, ATI Radeon X1200, ATI Radeon X1200, <snip> (--) RADEONHD(0): Detected an RS690 on an unidentified card (II) RADEONHD(0): Mapped IO @ 0xf8100000 to 0x7f33fbd86000 (size 0x00010000) (II) RADEONHD(0): Getting BIOS copy from legacy VBIOS location (II) RADEONHD(0): ATOM BIOS Rom: SubsystemVendorID: 0x1179 SubsystemID: 0xff00 IOBaseAddress: 0x9000 Filename: BR25453.bin BIOS Bootup Message: ATI Radeon Xpress for IALAA The problem is that the screen shakes and stumbles bad enough to give you sea sickness. It looks like what is occurring is the driver incorrect draws or corrupts a few horizontal lines and then the remaining part of the display gets adjust up/down to fill the void for the remainder of that refresh (or the next 3-4 refreshes). Typing (like this email) makes this happen more frequently. (this happens too fast to catch with a screenshot) Another big problem is screen artifacts. When you more a window you will have horizontal lines left in the display where the top/bottom of adjacent windows are. See: (82k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/112/ss/radeonArtifacts.jpg Back in June on the factory list the impending ATI driver trainwreck was brought to everyone's attention and, at least to my knowledge, nothing was ever done. (See June, August & September fglrx posts on openSuSE factory mailing list) Screen artifacts and flaky displays were things we fought with on laptops with 10.0 and it looks like they are back again. What is the current thought on how best to configure laptop displays with pre2400 series radeon cards? Radeonhd works OK for some chipsets, but fails miserably for others. What is the current best work around for the tens of thousands of laptops where the radeonhd doesn't work? Devs - I would like to hear your thoughts on this. I'm going to go try the ati driver and then try the radeon and then build radeonhd from the git repository (radeonhd from git was blackscreening on the box when last tried) to see if I can find something that works. I'll also try the 9-3 fglrx driver against the xorg included with 11.2 and see if it does any better than it did against the xorg in 11.0 (caused the box to reboot when X started) I knew this trainwreck was coming... Looks like it is time for an nvidia based laptop. What is the experience for nvidia based laptop users with 11.2 so far. I see nvidia has released new drivers for the latest kernel. So if it isn't working now, it should be shortly. So guys, what is the best work around? -- 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] Availability of propietairy videodrivers for 11.2
by Hans de Faber 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hello Everybody, Does anybody know when there become repo's with ati and NVida rpm's available for OpenSuse 11.2. Thanks in advance, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] curious problem -
by jdd-gmane 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I have a curious problem with 11.2. I dunno if it's a hardware problem or a distro problem. I got a free computer, found on the pavement... not so bad: 3.5Ghz, 512Mo ram, 80Gb HDD... work like a charm... at least seems to. installed 11.2 on it without any problem. wanted to give it to my daughter (200 miles away), the occasion being a visit. I have to use my daughter's monitor (15") At first start, starts... but no final display (the monitor LEDs blinks), probably excess frequency (my own monitor is a 20"), but no active mouse nor keyboard (no keyboard, so hard reset) at boot, key "1" and boot as init 1, good. startx same as before sax2 and sax2-vesa, display the proposal frame (blue, good fréquency, good shape), but still no keyboard nor mouse. the very same keyboard I used for the install... same with an other keyboard. Well, I bring back this beats to home this afternoon, but I wonder what can make such problem? same result with no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or the xorg.conf.install file... on summary, I could fix the frequency problem, but not the keyboard work on console but not with X problem. When I installed 11.2, the keyboard works very well thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net. http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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] intel hda sound stutters
by Daniel Bauer 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 00:56:12, Basil Chupin wrote: > On 17/11/09 21:13, Daniel Bauer wrote: > >>>>>>>> on a fresh 11.2 install the sound stutters (test sound in Yast, > >>>>>>>> playing a wav-file or an audio CD): it's like the sound would be > >>>>>>>> played twice with small pauses. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I googled again with no success. I followed > >>>>>>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - with no success: > >> Maybe he meant just moving it to the bottom of the stack > >> in Personal Setting / Multimedia > > > > in device priority PulseAudio is on the bottom. > > in backebnd I can choose Xine and GStreamer, Xine is chosen > > When I change backend to GStreamer the KDE-Sound at login/logout plays > > perfect, wow, but then Audio-CDs dont play anymore (no sound). > > There is a little "gotcha" which took me a while to work out. > > Right-click on the speaker/sound icon on the taskbar; first select your > Channel(s); then Show Mixer Window (whatever channels you had selected > will now be displayed - a la alsamixer). Have a look and make sure that > one of channels hasn't been MUTEd or make sure that the Capture box for > the CD has been ticked. (In my case, I have an external amplifier for my > sound card and the External Amp was MUTEd by default - so I had no sound > for some time until I found this "gotcha" :-) .) > > BC thanks Basil, I tried all of these channels, put everything loud, but CD's wouldn't play with GStreamer as "backend". It plays using Xine as "backend", but it stutters horribly. I filed a bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555935 but I guess the "debuggers" are very busy at the moment with the new release... Anyway, if somebody knows something... the details are in the bug above and there's also a link to the alsa-info. kind regards Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.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 11.2 and Virtual Box
by Claudio Prono 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hello to all, I am a new user of Virtual Box. In the past i have always used VmWare, today i have decided to try this product. I am trying a vmware machine running on Virtual PC, under a machine host as OpenSuSE 11.2 64bit. For testing purpose i use a virtual machine like OpenSuSE 11.2 64bit, but it don't start. When try to start, gives me a message like this: This Kernel requires an x86-CPU but only detected an i686 CPU. But, the host machine is a 64bit, as u can see: Linux lab-250 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux And this are the packages i have installed: virtualbox-ose-kmp-desktop-3.0.6_2.6.31.5_0.1-9.10.4.x86_64 xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose-3.0.6-9.10.4.x86_64 virtualbox-ose-kmp-default-3.0.6_2.6.31.5_0.1-9.10.4.x86_64 virtualbox-ose-3.0.6-9.10.4.x86_64 And this is what i have in /var/log/messages: Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915397] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently... Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915416] vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hwardware performance Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915418] vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915420] vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915421] vboxdrv: echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.915449] vboxdrv: Found 1 processor cores. Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.917408] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa032e580 Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.926452] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'. Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 123.926464] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.0.6_OSE (interface 0x000e0000). Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 124.161289] VBoxNetFlt: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa04d3f00 Nov 19 18:46:40 linux-um4n kernel: [ 124.239183] VBoxNetAdp: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa04f32e0 Nov 19 18:46:41 linux-um4n kernel: [ 124.683110] VMware memory control driver initialized Nov 19 18:46:41 linux-um4n kernel: [ 124.683199] vmmemctl: started kernel thread pid=2938 Nov 19 18:46:41 linux-um4n ifup: vboxnet0 Nov 19 18:46:41 linux-um4n ifup: No configuration found for vboxnet0 Any hint of what is the problem? Cheers, Claudio. -- ------------ Claudio Prono Systems Development @ PSS Srl, Divisione Implementazione Sistemi Via San Bernardino, 17 - 10137 Torino (TO) - IT Tel +39-011.32.72.100 Fax +39-011.32.46.497 PGP Fingerprint: 75C2 4049 E23D 2FBF A65F 40DB EA5C 11AC C2B0 3647 Disclaimer: http://atpss.net/disclaimer ------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] /root/tmp, new folder to be seen in "Desktop Folder" in 11.1
by Verner Kjærsgaard 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi listmates, - this morning a new icon appeared in the Desktop Folder widget on my openSusE11.1 KDE4 desktop, it's named 'Temp'. When clicked, it opens Dolphin that appears to show '/root/tmp'. Such a directory does not exist.... I am, however, able to delete some, not all, files (odd, old temp files it appears) in said directory. What's this? -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Open Source Academy +45 56964223 Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 Linux Counter no 114954 ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Copy DVD
by Fred A. Miller 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Well, it simply WON'T work on any 'puter now!! I've used the openSUSE single click method to add repositories, the manual method, etc. The only app. that will play a movie is VLC. ALL apps. to copy AND compress a DVD lock up with both cores at 100%. K3b will copy a DVD 1:1 by first creating an image, then burning it to a dual-layer disk. However, there's no sound....just video. I've had grief now and then, but NEVER like this and on so many different boxen! At this point, I'm lost as to what to try. Fred -- A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA! 'Time to put Nana Pelosi in a home!' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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