April 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] KV8-Max3 hardlocks installing 11.4
by Larry Stotler 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

I've run into an interesting issue on my son's desktop. It's: Athlon 3200+ KV8-Max3 512MB DDR (1 x256MB, 2 x 128MB all 400Mhz) nVidia GeForce FX5600/256MB The install starts fine, but when it gets to "activating usb devices..." the system hardlocks. It does it everytime. I've disabled the onboard SATA Raid controllers. I do have a Promise IDE RAID card in it. The system has XP(fulled updated) on it and runs perfectly fine, so I'm not leaning toward a hardware issue. I've tried: 11.4/x64 - standard and safe settings 11.3/x64 - standard loads the kernel to 67% and stalls but reboots sometimes. Otherwise, it and safe settings hardlock. Knoppix 6.0.2/x32 - hardlocks after loading the kernel and resetting the video. Any suggestions? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] The future of KDE
by Basil Chupin 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Can anyone provide an answer, please, to what the future of KDE is considering that gnome has gone #3 but will not be used in such a distro as Ubuntu, to be replaced by Unity. And I don't know what the future holds for openSUSE. What's the future of KDE in openSUSE, will it remain and be in place for at least several years or be replaced with something like Unity or Gnome #3 in the foreseeable future or within 6 months time (whichever comes first)? (Reason for asking is that I don't want to invest time and effort in getting KDE in 11.4 configured only to find that KDE will be replaced with something as unproductive as gnome 3 or Unity.) BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details." Confucius -- 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-11.4 DVD media ID
by Mark Hounschell 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Can anyone tell me what media is being used. IE the MEDIA ID. K3B says it is unknown. Thanks Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Streaming video download programs
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

I am at the so called end of the barbed wire which is bringing me ADSL connection. That means at the best times for download a meager 0.39Mbps. Not very impressive and not enough for a good viewing of streaming videos. I think that downloading the stream would help me in viewing the videos in an optimal way. Found the downloadhelper for Mozilla Firefox which would know when you would need help with the stream but I found that is only for sites it knows and the site from which I wanted to view the video was not on its list. Googling for programs got me a whole lot of programs that would all do what I am looking for. What program are you using? Are there any other working programs which work fine with openSUSE11.3 and 11.4? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.38-30-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.2 (4.6.2) 20:25pm up 7:08, 3 users, load average: 2.29, 2.59, 2.40 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Firefox v4.0b12 -- I don't see a Refresh button
by Stan Goodman 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

There must be one, where is it hidden? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] webpin doesn't work
by Sascha Manns 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Hello Mates, since my upgrade to M6 to now my webpin doesn't work. It says: ERROR: invalid or unsupported value for distribution version: "11.4" Valid values are: 11.0, factory, 11.2, 11.1, Factory, 11.3, latest Has anyone an idea, how to fix it? -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mounted media randomly changing permisions
by stuart＠bolin.org.uk 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Dear all I have several issues with external usb hard drives. 1 is approaching its limit and has less than 9gb out of 1000gb remaining. 11.4 keeps setting it to read only causing ktorrent to sigterm. Right click properties in dolphin reports that the drive is 100% full. How can it be 100% full with more than 8gb free? To be 100% full it would need to be in the region of mb's free surely? Also another drive refuses to be detected by any pc it just keeps intermitant flashing? Is it a usb control failure it has power or could it be disk failure? First hd is a Lacey usb external 1tb formatted to ext3 Second is a Western Digital USB 1tb also formatted to ext3. Suggestions? Kind Regards Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

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[opensuse] Os 11.4 - How to revert to Yast to install downloaded RPMs?
by Mark Goldstein 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hi, I'd like to revert to Yast instead of KPackageKit for One-Click installations and for "open" action on downloaded RPMs. Is it possible? Could not find where it is defined. Somehow KPackageKit consistently installs additional packages I did not ask for (like emacs and abiword). I start feeling like with MS OS... Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suddenly awful sound and...
by Insomniac 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

opensuse 11.3, stock kernel, nvidia with the 256.53 (which is working fine) Hi, I woke up this morning and like I usually do I opened up Dolphin, went to the folder with all my music, found a song I wanted to listen to as I dressed and started to play it. The sound was *horrible*! The song was playing, but it sounded awful, like it was someone scratching a record or something. I thought it was exceedingly strange, but figured a reboot should 'fix' it. Reboot didn't work because the system wouldn't shut down. I normally leave my system running 24/7/365. I've shut it down a few times since I've had 11.3 installed and *most* of those *few* other times, it did the same thing...it just hanged at a dark gray screen (not black). Once I waited half a day to see if it would clear up and shut down - it didn't. I had to hard boot, which I know is very bad, but I had no other choice. Once I got back to startup, now the system startup (fast boot) is slower than molasses in January. It used to pop through and get me to my desktop in 30 seconds or less...now it's taking almost 3 minutes, and when it does get back to my desktop, the sound is still horrible. What could have happened overnight to make my system suddenly useless like this? I've looked at the msg.log thing in /var/log, but I don't understand it enough to get anything out of it unless it specifically said 'YOUR SYSTEM IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP' or anything along those lines. Is there some kind of bug that's keeping my system from shutting down or restarting? (downloading a new kernel is prohibitive because I'm on dialup) If any other info is needed to help me figure out why *suddenly* my system has turned to garbage, please just shout out and I'll get it here. Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address N
by Togan Muftuoglu 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi, I am trying to recover a IDE hard disk which is attached to my computer via Digitus IDE/SATA USB Adapter cable, yet the device is continuously getting a reset. usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338 usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5 usb 1-1: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge usb 1-1: Manufacturer: JMicron usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 7D5000AA4B50 scsi39 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 scsi 39:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD50 00AAJB-00UHA0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS sd 39:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00 sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Incomplete mode parameter data sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Incomplete mode parameter data sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 45 sd 39:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 01 b7 40 00 00 08 00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 112448 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 14056 sd 39:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < > sd 39:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk I am running kernel-default-2.6.38-30.1.x86_64 from Kernel Head repo for 11.3. When I attach a 160 GB IDE disk that can be mounted no problem and there are no reset highspeed UDB device messages. Any ideas ? Thanks Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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