August 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News 138 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 138 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Andreas Jaeger: Revising the Board Election Rules * Sebastian Kügler: Demystifying Akonadi * Will Stephenson: openSUSE Boosters at FrOSCon, Day 2 * Rares Aioanei: openSUSE Kernel Review * Wolfgang Rosenauer: Call for testing: Firefox 4.0b4 on KDE (and in general) For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/08/28/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-138- is-out/#more-4073 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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] SSD related questions
by Hans de Faber 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi listmates, Since kernel 2.6.34 the ssd related trim command is supported by the kernel. If I read things correct than the OS tells the ssd-device where the free space is. This looks to me as filesystem related action. Using a ssd disk raises the following questions. 1. If I make partitions on an ssd is the trim action bound to the partition or uses it the space of the whole device. What is influence of partitions on the trim command. 2. If I do device related actions, like dd if=disk of=ssd, is the trim functionality than active ? If not when are the unused blocks then erased ? When I mount the ssd after this action the OS doesn't know about the non used non erased blocks. Has somebody some expertice with this matter ? Thanks,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] opensuse and virtualbox.
by zGreenfelder 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I'm sure this issue has come up before (found several references in google, all with URLs that point into oblivion since changes. e.g. http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox_installation) I seem to have something weird.. installed opensuse 11.3, tried compiling my own version of virtual box OSE, then realized there was something in a repository for it, picked the virtualbox-ose packages in yast, installed, run and now get: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by exec uting '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package fir st. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. if I try to run the vboxdrv script, it gives me: Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules, NOT. It has been packaged...done so some hints would be helpful. I can't really go to the full version of virtual box on this particular machine. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Old repos
by Tom Patton 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Perhaps my search terms were poorly structured...but I recall there being mention of some 10.3 repos mirror sites still available, and I can't find them. I think they were mainly university sites. Any help, please? Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] USB device on headless Windows VM
by Jay Vollmer 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Greetings. I've been experimenting with different means of satisfying my occasional need to run Windows applications on my Linux laptop. I don't want to have to reboot so a dual boot is out, and Wine doesn't yet provide the necessary support for the applications that I need. Lately I've been very pleased with running Windows in a headlessVirtualBox, and connecting to it with rdesktop. The problem is that I haven't figured out how to mount and access USB devices through the remote desktop. I have no difficulty mounting and accessing these devices in Windows running on a non-headless VirtualBox session (through the little USB device menu at the bottom of the window,) but I'd like to be able to do it in a headless headless session. It mounts just fine within the Linux host, but never appears in the guest. I'm using the current versions of openSUSE (11.3) and the current version of VirtualBox (3.2.8) and Windows XP (sp3) in the VM. I've read through the user guide for VirtualBox, but it doesn't offer anything on point. Is there anyone out there who has tried this? More importantly, is there anyone out there who has succeeded? aTdHvAaNnKcSe -- JAY VOLLMER Il n'y a aucune honte en étant un paria! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
by Joe Zien 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I just upgraded my 160GB hdd to 500GB on my ThinkPad T60 and everything was fine with my original 2 distros. fdisk -l listed with no errors. I installed 5 new distros including OpenSuse 11.3 Suse works fine but now: # fdisk -l now reads: Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51196288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 6374 7167 6365520 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 7167 8670 12073320 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda4 8670 60802 418751369+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 8670 8798 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 8798 13897 40960048+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 13897 18996 40960048+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 18996 19379 3076888+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 19379 23204 30723808+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 23204 27029 30723808+ 83 Linux /dev/sda11 27030 27794 6144831 83 Linux /dev/sda12 27795 28559 6144831 83 Linux /dev/sda13 28560 29324 6144831 83 Linux sda6, sda7, sda8, and sda9 end at cylinder and the next partition starts at same cylinder as the previous cylinder. The next partition should start at the next cylinder as sda10,sda11,sda12 and sda13. How can I correct this? Does testdisk correct this, is it safe to use? jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] rndis and usbnet module symbol problems
by Valerio Mariani 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Dear All, I am running OpenSuSE 11.3. Since I have an HTC legend Android phone, I want to use the usb tethering from it with my Linux box. In order to do this, I looked for an usb-rndis-lite-kmp package for 11.3. I did not find one (I only found one for 11.2 in the SynCE repository), so I just took the spec file and adapted it for 11.3. The module was built and everything works fine. I can us the tethering from the phone. Unfortunately, there are some modules from the kernel that I can't use any more. For example, once I modprobe the modules from the rpm package (usbnet, cdc_eth and rndis_host), if I modprobe sierra_net, I get: [90376.255544] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_change_mtu [90376.255847] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_open [90376.255932] sierra_net: disagrees about version of symbol usbnet_skb_return [90376.255934] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_skb_return [90376.256121] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_tx_timeout [90376.256505] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_start_xmit [90376.256664] sierra_net: disagrees about version of symbol usbnet_get_endpoints [90376.256665] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_get_endpoints [90376.256857] sierra_net: Unknown symbol usbnet_stop The problem seems to lie in the usbnet module. There are two, one from the kernel and on from my rpm pakcage. Sierra_net, which comes with the kernel, only works with the usbnet from the system. But cdc_eth only works with the one from my package. My question is: why? The "disagrees about version of symbol" error seem to point to the fact that the kernel and the new module were compiled using different compilers. But how is this possible? I always used the compiler from the 11.3 distribution. Has anyone more information on this? How can I build a module that is fully compatible with the kernel I am using (the kernel-desktop)? Valerio -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RandR
by Peter SHELLEY 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Loaded SuSE Linux 11.0 then 11.1 and all seem OK, 1280x1024 (SXGA, Mode=0x31a) looked nice and then after checking at the "Yast/Hardware/Graphics Card and Monitor" it went bad. The "Yast/Hardware/Graphics Card and Monitor" still has the same settings but "Control Centre/Hardware/Display" has a note about RandR not having any configuration yet. Reading various sources has not helped me find out how to configure the RandR. The command "xrandr" gives the display resolution as 1024x768 when it should be 1280x1024. I cannot seem to get "xrandr" to modify anything !! How, when, where, what to do ?? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1v repos
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

just checking, anything wrong with the 11.1 -x86-64 suse repos? some have been unavailable for more than a day., at least for me... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] weird mouse cursor
by Carlos F Lange 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

My mouse cursor in KDE4 suddenly looks like a long vertical shaded line. It does not change back when I change cursor themes. Any idea how I got this? How to get the normal arrow back? -- 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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