August 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] A How Do You Use Linux survey
by C 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Some students are doing a Linux survey.. if you're interested in helping them out.... http://survey.education.txstate.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=LPP 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] startup notification crash
by Felix Miata 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

I'm really tired of this happening on each X login. zypper se knotify 4 finds nothing. rpm -q --whatprovides knotify4 finds nothing. yast search for knotify4 also finds nothing. file /usr/bin/knotify4 describes the file, but says nothing about why it is where it is. What's the secret to finding out what rpm is responsible for the presence of a binary file? Short of deleting the file manually, which will be resurrected on next update of whatever apparently secret package put it there, how do I make it never get run? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) 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] New TV card with AT&T UVerse
by Duaine Hechler 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

I currently have a Sabrent TV card, that some how got miss configured by an OS update (formated, re-installed 11.1 and GNOME (from KDE 3.5)). The modprobe override is in modeprobe.config.local. I don't think I really need a "tuner" card, since I used to get my uverse signal from channel 3. I realize this card is old technology, so I looking for a cheapish, but good TV card that will work with AT&T UVerse (and Linux). P.S. In the mean time, if anyone has any ideas on what happened to my Sabrent setup, let me know. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse 11.3 ATI nightmare please help
by Robert Cunningham 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

On my work PC I have an older ati x1650 graphics card running 2 Dell CRT monitors. This machine was running 11.2 just fine with the ati legacy drivers. after up grading to 11.3 for some other needs. I can't configure my monitors. In KDE personal settings it won't let me set the VGA higher than 800x600 at 60Hz and it defaults the Agp output to 1024X768 at 80 Hz anything that is saved here does not stick it reverts back to the low settings upon reboot. that I have tried using an old xconfig file( modified for the radeon driver), adding settings to the xconfig.d file, that hangs up the system at boot. Following some parts of the Ubuntu Wiki (Suse wiki no help at all) I can get my system configured to 1400x1050 @85Hz with side by side screens using xrandr commands so I know everything can work, but there is no way to make this permanent. I followed the Wiki to try and put these commands into my .Xprofile, or /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup, but these files do not exist and adding them hangs up my system. I would try my old ati drivers, but I have been told they are not compatible with the newer kernel. So where do I go from here ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] rar/unrar
by Bob Rea 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I am downloading an rar file in five parts numbered filename.rar.001 thru .005 I have never done this before how do i join the parts up? do I need to? kde konqi does not see a man or info file Advice needed. -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery Where is Bill Stringfellow now that we really need him? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] BCM4321 network adapter
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Has anyone else been able to get the BCM4321 adapter to work. In 11.2 I used the wl module from packman to get it to work and now it doesn't. If I had a choice I would rip this one out from the laptop but I don't have that option. Any suggestions on how to get it to work? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper up not showing updates that YaST2 does
by Carlos F Lange 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

When I open YaST2 Software Management after a fresh install and after adding a few repos, including Packman, I have about 20 updates, mostly libs, such as libavcodec52 from Packman, preset as automatic updates. If I do zypper up, I get "Nothing to do". Why are they behaving differently and how can I get zypper to match YaST2? I am creating a few scripts for streamlined installation in my lab computers and I am counting with zypper to by-pass the GUI. Thanks. -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] indexing galore after upgrade to 11.3
by Vadym Krevs 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Just discovered that as a result of the upgrade to 11.3, both of my desktops now have 3 indexing "solutions" installed and actively trying to index files in my home directory all at the same time: a) beagle, b) tracker, c) strigi Needless to say, that having 3 file indexers running simultaneously severely impacts performance. While it was not difficult to uninstall 2 of the 3, I am somewhat curious - what is the "openSUSE" indexing strategy? Neither tracker nor strigi seem to have the same level of integration with openSUSE as beagle, so why install and enable all three of them during the upgrade without ever offering user any choice? Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] User impression Lenovo G460 Intel Core i5 430M 14
by Marco Calistri 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Dear List Members: Would like to get some feedbacks about this product: Notebook G460 Intel Core i5 430M 14" - Lenovo - 067725P Mostly how the hardware works with Linux and also would like to collect general impression about its maior defects and merits. Thanks, -- Marco Calistri <amdturion> Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Bill Nye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] how to diagnose disk-related problem?
by Dave Howorth 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I have a problem on a new server that I'm bedding in. I'm trying to copy data onto it from an older machine and the new machine is going into a strange 'locked-in' state. I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to investigate the problem. On an old server, there's some data that I want to copy to the new server. The way I'm doing that is to nfs export the data on the old server, nfs mount it on the new server and then use cp to copy it to its new home, something like this: cp -uax /nfs/old-host/data /new-directory I actually have two of these running, for different subsets of the data. BTW, I'm executing all these commands via ssh from my desktop machine. That works fine for a couple of hours and then when I try to execute another command (ls) in another ssh shell it tells me that the new server has closed the connection. The two cp commands are still apparently running but when I try typing ^Z, those ssh sessions are terminated as well. If I go to the new server's screen, it is blank and I haven't found any key sequence that makes anything appear on it (specifically, CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't, for example). So it's beginning to sound like it's crashed, yes? But it hasn't. The disk activity lights for the drives where /new-directory lives are still flashing and running top on the old server shows me that a couple of nfsd processes are busy and that system is spending a lot of time accessing its disks (there's not much else running) so it seems like the cp processes are still running. At this point I don't see any alternative to rebooting but I thought I'd ask first to see if anybody had any other ideas on ways to gather information? These symptoms have occurred once before. When I rebooted that time, the system came up without one of the data disks - the system said the interface wasn't responding. But when I unplugged the disk and plugged it back in and rebooted, it came back. There was actually a lot else happened at that time, so I can't be sure it was as simple as it sounds. I'll see if the same happens this time. I wasn't able to spot anything useful in the logs and smart said the disk was OK, AFAICT. The new data directory is in an ext4 filesystem in an LVM volume on an mdadm RAID10 all on openSUSE 11.2 so another possibility is some kind of problem in one of those systems. The drive is in a SATA hot swap cage connected to a port on the motherboard; it's a WD RE4 1.5 TB. All ideas gratefully received! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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