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[opensuse] OpenSuSE 11.4 on March?
by Claudio Prono 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi to all, Just a confirm, is official the OpenSuSE 11.4 is out at 10 March 2011? Cordially, Claudio Prono. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claudio Prono OPST System Developer Gsm: +39-349-54.33.258 @PSS Srl Tel: +39-011-32.72.100 Via San Bernardino, 17 Fax: +39-011-32.46.497 10141 Torino - ITALY http://atpss.net/disclaimer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key - http://keys.atpss.net/c_prono.asc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Display just broke on me after an update
by Marc Chamberlin 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

OK, I think nVidia just broke my laptop on me. I had noted that the openGL screen savers had stopped running so decided to look into why. Googling and poking around I came across an nvidia configuration tool so thought I would give it a try... nvidia-xconfig Didn't give me any kind of feedback so who knows if it worked ok or not... I also happened to do an update on all packages from the repositories, that are newer than the ones I have, hoping for a fixed driver or something. So who knows if the update broke something... sigh.. Anywise, after rebooting, I can no longer get past the init 3 level. The GUI desktop at init 5 fails to come alive. So can some kind guru help me get my poor laptop back up on it's feet? Appreciate it.. Marc.. Here are some of the particulars - I am running openSuSE 11.3 x64 uname-a gives Linux MarcsLaptop 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13_53 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The Xorg.0.log file gives me this bit of interesting info at the end, but it makes no sense to me.. [ 16.078] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 [ 16.078] (EE) No devices detected. [ 16.078] Fatal server error: [ 16.078] no screens found [ 16.078] Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 16.078] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 16.078] lspci | grep -i nvidia gives 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2) rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia gives nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-260.19.29_k2.6.34.0_12-21.1.x86_64 nvidia-settings-260.19.21-0.pm.1.6.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-260.19.29-22.1.x86_64 I tried to use the backup version of xorg.conf but no joy... cat xorg.conf gives # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.29 (buildmeister(a)swio-display-x86-rhel47-04.nvidia.com) Wed Dec 8 12:27:39 PST 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kernel HEAD version boot stops with fsck.ext3: No such file... messages
by Istvan Gabor 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hello: This question might bee too specific here but I give a try before I subscribe to opensuse-kernel list. I have openSUSE 11.2 with kernel version 2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop (i586) which works OK. Recently I have installed kernel kernel-desktop-2.6.37-35.1.i586 from kernel-HEAD repo. When I try to boot this kernel the boot process stops with the following messages: "fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxx_part12 /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxx_part12: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a corect ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filessystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>" I get the same maessage for all of the softraid devices (dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxx_partxx) (The root partition is not located on a raid device.) Finally I get: "fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. The root filesystem is is already mounted read-write. ... Give root password for login." When I give the root password and enter the the shell all the /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxx devices are there (ls -l /dev/mapper) I can mount manually all the devices for which the above error messages were given with no problem. (The normal kernel, 2.6.31 also mounts these devices with no problem at boot.) Why aren't these devices mounted when the new kernel is booted? How could I fix this? Thanks, Istvan -- 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 113 Yast2 error messages.
by Bruce Samhaber 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, When "Starting the Software Manager" during the 'Load Configured Repositories' stage the following message appears. Warning There was an error in the repository initialization. The software Manager window then loads. Doing a 'Refresh all Repositories' is successful. After any kind of a change and selecting 'Accept' the Software Manager window disappears and the following Error message appears. No software is installed. This error message also appears after other Yast2 tasks, 'Network Settings', 'Hostnames' however, with these the changes do take effect. QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid YaST got signal 6 at YCP file String.ycp:128 /sbin/yast2: line 399: 6571 Aborted $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed Any idea what's wrong here? Thank you, -- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber(a)samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CPU frequency
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

On openSUSE 11.2 on a desktop computer (not a laptop), I ran cpufreq-info to see what speed my processor was running at. The system was doing things, so I would imagine it would be set to a higher frequency. But that seems not to be the case. cpufreq-info lists (same for all CPUs): analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 1.60 GHz - 2.40 GHz available frequency steps: 2.40 GHz, 1.60 GHz available cpufreq governors: conservative, userspace, powersave, ondemand, performance current policy: frequency should be within 1.60 GHz and 2.40 GHz. The governor "userspace" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1.60 GHz (asserted by call to hardware). So I tried setting it to 2.4 GHz to see if that happened: # cpufreq-info -w 1596000 # cpufreq-set -f 2.4GHz # cpufreq-info -w 2400000 My question is: how/where should I set it so the CPU frequency is increased when there is system load? I am guessing it is the 'ondemand' governor that should be selected. But where? I did not see any likely place in /etc/sysconfig or in an /etc/init.d script. http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE/opensuse-reference/cha.p… had some to say, but did not really satisfy my curiosity. I am guessing that the default is set to 'powersave'. Does that sound correct? Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Screen resolution file?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, Running OpenSuSe 11.2 and a 11.3 on separate hardware both with KDE and would like to find out which file I can edit using my trusty Kate or kwrite text editor that would control the screen resolution. I currently need to use krandrtray to set the resolution from the system auto default of 1680x1050 to a more respectable/readable 1024x768. If I logoff or power down the machine, I need to visit krandrtray each time to set the screen resolution as it defaults to the auto setting of 1680x1050 when I logon again. I have already Googled and looked at the mailing list archives and have not seen anything specific other than what I have tried already. What I would like to know is which filename, read by the OS on user logon, decides the screen resolution for that user. Can I edit the contents of this/these file/s using the Kate/Kwrite text editor? Appreciated Hylton -- ======================================================================== Hylton is a Lions Club member of Fish Hoek Lions Club(District 410A) Part of the worlds largest NGO Lions Clubs Int http://www.lionsclubs.org This Lion is using openSuSE Linux since v9.0 with KDE ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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