openSUSE Users July 2009

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by Hawit

I hv an Intel ALC269 onboard sound card but it volumes is so low. I hv set all volume to top but doesnt help. In Windows it is recognized as Realtek High Definition... how do I fix the sound so it could work like in windows environment? i am using opensuse 11.1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] virtualbox can not start (after kernel pae update?)

by Hawit

suddenly my VirtualBox 3.0.2 can not start. so as root i run s6420:~ # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module done Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module failed (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep virtual s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.28 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 I hv reinstalled VirtualBox, linux-kernel-headers but doesnt help. any idea? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] GNOME run dialog and gnomesu

by Jim Henderson

I've got two systems here running different versions of openSUSE - one with 11.0 and one with 11.1. On 11.0, I find that if I launch wireshark using the run dialog (ie, ALT- F2), it's launched using gnomesu. On 11.1, it isn't launched using gnomesu. How does the run dialog determine whether to use gnomesu or not? 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

12 years, 10 months

Re: [opensuse] nvidia repo/driver question

by Bob S

On Thursday 30 July 2009 13:37:31 Juan De Vincenzo wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Bob S<911(a)sanctum.com> wrote: > > Thank you for your time and effort and very complete answer. > > Your welcome. =) > > > I am familiar with the "hard way" and the "easy way" Did the "hard way' > > back in 10.2 and it was a PITA everytime the kernel was upgraded. Ijust > > want to keep it simple. > > Well, honestly, coming from Slackware as I do (I started with OpenSUSE > just a week ago), for me that hard way is the easy way, I don't know, > re-installing after certain updates just makes sense for me, I guess I > need to learn the suse way now. ;) > Juan, Oh, I used to compile all kinds of garbage back in the RedHat days. Got tired of it. Curious, What brings you to SuSE from Slack? Hang around here. Sounds like you may be a pretty valuable guy. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] Kmix, YaST and an explotion

by Verner Kjærsgaard

hi list, - I'm digging deeper into my (no)sound problem which occured after some on-line autoupdate. - if I go into YaST and search for kmix, I see that 4.2.1-43.13 is installed but 4.2.1-43.14 is available. - if I select to update to this available version, YaST explodes in unfilled dependencies, it wants to DOWNgrade LOTS of packages. So i don't touch it. - eh....has anyone seen anything like this? Second question: I'd like to re-install all sound, I tried the hw/section of YaST, deleted all sound hw and re-fired YaST. It finds the sound hw just fine, but nothing works... Any ideas? -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] is this a function of the OS or the CPU itself?

by Constantinos Maltezos

I think my computer just came out of the closet to me. The command `man man` works fine, but `man woman` produces: No manual entry for woman. I accept my computer for Who It Is, but I would like to understand better. Is this situation an affect of software or hardware? Not that I'll judge either way. And how should we tell its motherboard? Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] Reataining Multiple Kernels

by Lucky Leavell

I do much prefer OpenSuSE/SLES to other distros but must use Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora at work. There is one nice feature on those others I have been unable to figure out how to do in SuSE. When doing a kernel install, it retains the last 3 (configurable) kernels and makes entries for all of them in grub.conf. Today I did a kernel upgrade on my CentOS 5.3 desktop but it broke VMware so all I had to do was reboot selecting the last kernel known to work with VMware. I know they do it via yum which SuSE does not use. Is there a simple way to retain several kernel versions in OpenSuSE/SLES? Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] ATI video driver?

by Clayton

Ahhrrrgh. OK, does anyone have a copy of the older ATI video drivers that actually works? I'm getting so sick of this garbage card. To replace it though, I have to basically throw away the entire computer (small bookshelf computer with an onboard ATI x1200 and no room to put in another card). Using the latest Catalyst drivers from the repos works... kinda. Loads of problems and issues.. Flash video crashes any browser (exact same Flash version on a different computer is perfectly fine)... running XBMC causes the screen to strobe, and on and on. I've tried various Linux distros, all with the exact same results... WIndowsXP works fine... sigh... at least the hardware is not faulty (I assume since XP works fOK) When I ran this machine on an old 11.0 install it was OK.. things worked fine, but I was using an old ATI fglrx driver... which I don't have anymore. So is ti possible that someone here has one of those old ATI drivers kicking around from before ATI started breaking everything that they could send my way? or knows a location that I can DL from? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 10 months

[opensuse] Strange error with disc space

by Chuck Payne

Guys, I have a question. Have you ever seen disc space just disappear and you were unable to find what is using? One of our DB came to me the other day pointed out that one of his rac boxes has filled up 2.0G 1.7G 214M 89% / 2.0G 88M 1.8G 5% /tmp 1023M 298M 673M 31% /opt 2.0G 203M 1.7G 11% /home 2.0G 297M 1.6G 16% /archive 2.0G 456M 1.4G 25% /var 4.9G 2.7G 2.0G 59% /usr 2.0G 68M 1.8G 4% /usr/local 40G 12G 26G 32% /u00 122M 32M 84M 28% /boot 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm 4.0G 118M 3.9G 3% /crs_db so I started looking into, but I can't find any file or dir on the root partition that eat space. I have looked at dmesg and don't see anything. Oh, we have rebooted the box and the space didn't clear up. Just an fyi, here are things I did look, please feel free to let me know what other things I need to check. alias ducks='du -chs * | sort -rn | head -11' find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' | sort -nrk 2,2 lsof -a +L1 -- ---------------------------------------- Old utilities do not die they just slowly fade away! ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 11 months

RE: [opensuse] limit 'su' to a specific username

by James D. Parra

-----Original Message----- From: 'Patrick Shanahan' [mailto:paka@opensuse.org] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:22 PM To: James D. Parra Subject: Re: [opensuse] limit 'su' to a specific username > The problem I see is that the user can 'sudo' commands as another > user, however I am trying to get the user to actually be that other > user. I don't see that functionality with sudo. Is there a way to have sudo 'su' > to a specific user? > > Thanks again, Why are we off-list? what about: DESCRIPTION The sudoers file is composed of two types of entries: aliases (basically variables) and user specifications (which specify who may run what). When multiple entries match for a user, they are applied in order. Where there are multiple matches, the last match is used (which is not necessarily the most specific match). The sudoers grammar will be described below in Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF). Don't despair if you don't know what EBNF is; it is fairly simple, and the definitions below are annotated. do you not understand Sudo give elevated priviledges to specific commands and specific locations to a *named* user. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` The off-list reply was accidental. Perhaps I am not properly describing what I am trying to accomplish. What I want is to have is userA, userB, & userC, su to userZ, but not be able to su to anything else. All three users need to become userZ, have userZ's name at the prompt, and do all work as that user. Once they exit, they'll back at there original login names. In other words, I don't want the users issuing 'sudo' for every command they need to do as userZ. I hope this is a little clearer. Regards, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 11 months

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openSUSE Users July 2009