April 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Pulseaudio takes 270 Mb
by Ilya Chernykh 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Pulseaudio takes 270 Mb in my system thus filling all the remaining memory on my system and I receive periodic speaker signals of memory being extinguished. Should it take so much? -- 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 version 2.6.22
by Bogdan Cristea 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hi I have to install some old drivers for some acquisition cards and I need Linux kernel version 2.6.22. Is there a way to find the kernel sources for openSUSE 11.4 ? thanks -- Bogdan Cristea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 startup issues
by John Perry 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

A week or two ago, I upgraded from 1.3 to 11.4 on my wife's computer. It's an Intel I5-650 in a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 motherboard. Aside from the niggly little things that I'm gradually getting worked out, there's one big problem that I see no way to solve: the network interface usually comes up on a restart at 10mbps/half duplex (it also did this under 11.3, but not as often). Yast won't touch it, since I use NetworkManager, and I'm completely unable to find a way to fix it under NM (I also tried without success using ifconfig during an episode of trying to make xen work). The only way I've found to get back to 100mbps/full duplex has been to reboot into Windows, which comes up correctly, then reboot back to opensuse desktop (opensuse xen _always_ comes up in the slow speed, but I'm not yet ready to blame it all on xen). Gigabyte says the network interface is RTL8111D. hwinfo says it's RTL 8111/8168B, using driver r8169. Is there a way to fix the Ethernet speed using NM or ifconfig? Or, more to the point, is there any way to solve this? John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] horrible perfomance problems with powerful laptop
by Oliver Kullmann 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hello, finally, the performance of Suse 11.3 (all updates applied) on my laptop (i5 quadcore, 4GB) is so awful, one needs to find out the reasons (or change the distribution, or whatever). I hope I find some help here. According to my experience, it's best to start trying to establish some real facts (which, unfortunately, seems to be already a non-trivial endeavour). One basic problem, which I already encountered with previous Suse versions, is that the frequency setting doesn't work: after a few days of running, at least one of the four cores will be set to a lower frequency. To eliminate this (but see below) I set in the BIOS "no frequency scaling". The frequency shown in Ksysguard since then is constantly "2,394 MHz" (but this can't be; see below). Another basic problem is that (reliably) after "sleeping" or "hibernation" the process scheduling doesn't function properly anymore, and typically all processes (whatever the numbers --- I tried hundreds) are scheduled only on two or sometimes even only on one core, while the other two or three cores are idle. Of course, would be great if this malfunction would be treated (finally, I thought Linux would be about speed; apparently these problems don't occur with the windows 7 still on that Laptop (though I don't really run that)). But to ignore that, and for the following I have always rebooted the Laptop (as if it would be windows). Direct after reboot everything is exactly as it should be. I have various computers, on which I perform (a lot of) scientific computations, where I can measure the times reliably, and the times are as they should be. But after a few days of running (and I have tasks, which necessarily run over weeks) performance becomes very weak. It doesn't show up on Ksysquard (or top), there the percentages and frequencies are the same, but for example Kde sticks like glue (reaction time for any button press at least a second, and if you wait for another week, it's 5 seconds; scroll bars become unusable). More reliably, the computations I run become a factor of 5 to 10 (in words, five to ten(!)) slower. Just running one process, memory usage about 50%. So nothing goes on, except that performance is awful. To make these numbers more trustworthy to the outside world, is there some standard (simple!) Linux tool/command to measure some (very) basic performance? I don't mean an elaborated benchmark set, but just a very simple common program, where people know what the running times should be? The only explanation I have for the slow performance is that the frequency goes down dramatically (without Linux noting it), and that can be demonstrated with something very simple. Of course, I have my own programs to run, and I can write a simple C program, but I guess it would make communication much easier if one would have a standard program. Hopefully we can shed some light on that. Thanks for your consideration. Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Intel Sandybridge Graphics hardware supported by openSUSE 11.4 out of the box?
by Joachim Schrod 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Will Stephenson wrote: > On Monday 04 Apr 2011 16:54:37 Cristian Rodríguez wrote: >> El 04/04/11 10:24, Joachim Schrod escribió: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is the build-in graphics for Intel's Core i7 (codename Syndybridge, >> > full name "Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000 (used in 2nd Generation >> > Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processor family)") supported by openSUSE >> > 11.4 out of the box or via an OBS project? >> >> Yes, it is supported and it should work out of the box. > > I'm tracking this bug which appears to be Sandy Bridge dependent: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680921 Thanks for the quick answer to both of you. I'll receive my new workstation next week, so I'll see if that bug will concern me. (It's about HD2000, I'll get an HD3000.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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 dup 32 bit -> 64 bit ?
by Roger Oberholtzer 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

I have installed the 32-bit version of 11.4 on a system. I have decided that I would like to try the 64-bit version. I expect that the only way to do this is to do a re-install. But I thought I would ask if there was an alternative. Anyone know of one? Perhaps I will generate an autoyast description of my system, and change it to specify a 64-bit version, and then do the install with that. Any other suggestions welcome. It is not a production system. 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] Intel Sandybridge Graphics hardware supported by openSUSE 11.4 out of the box?
by Joachim Schrod 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi, Is the build-in graphics for Intel's Core i7 (codename Syndybridge, full name "Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000 (used in 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processor family)") supported by openSUSE 11.4 out of the box or via an OBS project? Or do I have to get drivers from Intel? But support is rather new, from January, http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2010Q4.html so I don't know if somebody picked that up already. Any warnings about problems I'm likely to run into? Thanks in advance for sharing your experience, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Change of user name over web
by Vojtěch Zeisek 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi, I'm running small LAMP server (users are classical UNIX users) and I'd like to enable my users to change their password for FTP over web. I don't see any way how to do it... :-( I heard about http://www.webmin.com/usermin.html but it seems as huge project and I heard there are some security issues. I didn't find any usable script (PHP, ...) to enable this function. I was thinking about WebYaST, but I do not know it has this ability. Any idea how to do it? :-) Thanks in advance and have a nice day! Vojta -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ Web: http://trapa.cz/cs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Calibrating screen brightness
by A. den Oudsten 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

How do I calibrate the screenbrightness of my 11.4 KDE 4.6.00 ? Tia André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Python not working in 11.4
by Ilya Chernykh 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Several Python applications do not work for me in 11.4 Compiz settings manager: anixx@anixx-desktop:~> ccsm /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: RuntimeWarning: tp_compare didn't return -1 or -2 for exception from gtk import _gtk ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "gi" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ccsm", line 129, in <module> mainWin = ccm.MainWin(context, plugin, category) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ccm/Window.py", line 59, in __init__ self.MainPage = MainPage(self, self.Context) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 1188, in __init__ pluginWindow = PluginWindow(self.Context) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ccm/Widgets.py", line 1608, in __init__ self.props.hscrollbar_policy = gtk.POLICY_NEVER ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "gi" Itmages upload tool: anixx@anixx-desktop:~> upload-picture /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: RuntimeWarning: tp_compare didn't return -1 or -2 for exception from gtk import _gtk ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "gi" (upload-picture:7931): libnotify-WARNING **: Missing symbol 'gdk_screen_make_display_name' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/upload-picture", line 142, in <module> else: daemon.run() File "/usr/bin/upload-picture", line 91, in run main(self.filelist) File "/usr/bin/upload-picture", line 75, in main dialog = SummaryDialog(argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/itmages/widgets.py", line 1009, in __init__ self.show_notify_message(message, 'nc') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/itmages/widgets.py", line 1023, in show_notify_message self.notification.props.icon_name = icon ImportError: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "gi" and others. What should I do to have them working? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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