August 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] [solved] Add driver to initrd for pxe-boot
by markus.weich＠jhg-traunreut.de 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

I was on the wrong track... putting broadcom into the kernel (not into initrd) finally did the trick! In detail: when the pxe client stopped in linuxrc because of the network error, I fetched /proc/config.gz. This file contains the configuration for the pxe kernel. After that, I installed OpenSUSE12.1 from DVD on the computer, and compiled a kernel with make bzImage and the configuration from the client. With this kernel image and the old initrd, the client was now able to do the autoinstallation! Thanks, Markus ________________________________________ Von: Weich, Markus Gesendet: Freitag, 17. August 2012 13:32 An: Philipp Thomas Betreff: AW: [opensuse] Add driver to initrd for pxe-boot I tried mkinitrd before. It doesn't work with pxe because the installation routines are in pxe initrd. The tutorials I found on the internet all unpacked, modified and repacked initrd. But the format of openSUSE 12.1 pxe initrd seems special: etc/depmod.d and modprobe.d aren't covered in the tutorials I found. Nevertheless I messed around with them, too. No success. I also tried bootparam keeppxe, didn't work neither. What i'll try next: -compile the kernel with the /proc/config.gz from the pxe environment - or put all the needed modules into /modules/..., not just only broadcom and do the depmod thing again... Any other suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Markus ________________________________________ Von: Philipp Thomas [Philipp.Thomas2(a)gmx.net] Gesendet: Freitag, 17. August 2012 13:15 An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Add driver to initrd for pxe-boot [Please use a fixed line length of less than 80 characters as that's much easier to read, specially when you use text mode MUAs] On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:17:14 +0000, <markus.weich(a)jhg-traunreut.de> wrote: >I asked Uwe Gansert, the author of autoyast, and he told me >that broadcom.ko needs to be in the initrd. But how do i get >broadcom.ko into initrd? For a normal system you would add the needed modules to INITRD_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and call mkinitrd to create the new initrd. See 'man 8 mkinitrd' for the options mkinitrd supports. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] autoyast tool : xml file not found
by Dsant 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

I wrote a autoyast.xml file, but autoyast does not start at all. I tried a lot of kernel options in grub : kernel (...) autoyast=autoyast.xml kernel (...) autoyast=file:///autoyast.xml or copying as file "autoinst.xml" and autoyast=default No luck :( Could you tell me the right kernel option ? Dsant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Lost desktop in opensuse-12.1?
by Josef Wolf 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Hello, I am running opensuse-12.1 with KDE. I accidentally pressed the left window key and (I think) the ALT key, and now I am left with an empty desktop with an empty panel/taskbar. I can see with "ps ax" that all my applications are still running, but I can't get to them. What happened? How can I get back my desktop? Any hints? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Add driver to initrd for pxe-boot
by markus.weich＠jhg-traunreut.de 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Hello, i have a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet Card and it doesn't work out of box using autoyast (opensuse 12.1) over pxe. I already identified the necessary kernel modules broadcom.ko and tg3.ko. tg3 is compiled into the kernel but broadcom.ko is missing. I asked Uwe Gansert, the author of autoyast, and he told me that broadcom.ko needs to be in the initrd. But how do i get broadcom.ko into initrd? 1) unpacking initrd on the server is easy :-) mkdir /tmp/myinitrd cd /tmp/myinitrd/ zcat /srv/tftp/initrd | cpio -i 2) getting the broadcom module from the installation source on the server was no problem :-) mkdir /tmp/mykernelmods cd /tmp/mykernelmods/ rpm2cpio /srv/ftp/akt/CD1/suse/i586/kernel-default-3.1.0-1.2.1.i586.rpm | cpio -idmv cp /tmp/mykernelmods/lib/modules/3.1.0-1.2-default/kernel/drivers/net/phy/broadcom.ko /tmp/myinitrd/modules/ 3) And now i do have a problem: a) booting the client over pxe, switching to konsole and typing: modprobe tg3 #no problem modprobe broadcom #FATAL: Module broadcom not found. But the module is there, in /modules b) Okay, now i try something different. After unpacking, i did: depmod -b /tmp/myinitrd -C /tmp/myinitrd/etc/depmod.d/ 3.1.0-1.2-default This creates modules.dep, modules.alias, ... Booting over pxe now gives me the broadcom module, but not all the other modules from the kernel: modprobe tg3 #FATAL: Module tg3 not found modprobe broadcom #no problem 4) solution would be a mixture of 3a and 3b, but how? Can anyone help? I'm quite desperate now... 5) Ah ja, you can pack the initrd on the server via cd /tmp/myinitrd/; find ./ | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -n9 > ../initrd.ACER; cp /tmp/initrd.ACER /srv/tftp/ Thanks, Markus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 12.2 RC2 sucessfull installation on asus UX32VD
by slavi 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

To whom it may concern Dears, I'm happy to inform you that I succeed with installation of openSUSE 12.2 RC2 on laptop asus UX32VD. I only had some trouble forcing installation to use MBR (not GPT) to allow smooth dual boot (smooth in my opinion). How ever I blame this on myself. :-) Will keep testing and report any troubles. Br Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Font size when viewing messages in Thunderbird
by Bob Williams 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Most of the messages I read in Thunderbird are displayed in the font and size that I want, but some are displayed in a smaller font size. In particular, messages from Basil Chupin and Billie Walsh are displayed smaller. I am using Thunderbird 14.0 on KDE 4.9 on openSUSE 12.1. I notice that Basil is also using Thunderbird 14.0, but so is Carlos Robinson and his messages display correctly (from my POV). Is this something I can adjust at my end or is it set in the sending User-Agent? I prefer to read all messages in the same font size, as it is less tiring. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.00 "release 555" Uptime: 18:00pm up 4 days 19:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.32 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Where can I get instructions for compiling VirtualBox?
by j.e.perry＠cox.net 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

I've been trying out Virtualbox under Windows, and it works very well (I have one of those stupid uninstallable xp "recovery" packages on my old laptop). I now have a nice new 64-bit desktop system with Intel vt-x and vt-d, but my installable xp package is only 32-bit, and won't allow me to install a 64-bit guest. I'd like to install xp under my 64-bit suse environment, but suse is stuck at VB 4.1.4, and VB is up to 4.1.18. The download site has 4.1.18 for OS 11.4, but I'm at 12.1. I downloaded the VB 4.1.18 bz2 package, but I can't find any instructions for installing from source, and they use something called "kmake", still without any instructions that I can find. I guess I have four questions: -will the 11.4. rpm work well with 12.1? -If not, is VB4.1.18 significantly better than 4.1.4? -if so, are there instructions an ordinary mortal can follow to get 4.1.18 into my 12.1 system? -if not, can I do anything besides just installing 32-bit OS 12.1 under my 32-bit xp system on my 64-bit computer? Thanks, John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Why bin & no bin64? => lets fix lib64=>lib, bin(32),lib(32)=>/usr32/{bin,lib}
by Linda Walsh 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

todd rme wrote: > > > This is still basically an aesthetic argument. Is there any > functional reason to change this? Is there anything that is currently > not working that would work better under this scenario? How many > packages currently need workaround to install properly that would not > need such workarounds under your scenario? > > -Todd ---- There are about 1300+ packages in my /usr/lib64 dir. The default on packages coming with config would have been /usr/lib. That's 1300 packages that had a have a special patch applied (75% of total). Seems like not having to go out of one's way to patch away from what is the 'normal expected path', would be more than aesthetics.... FWIW, with opensuse, the 'fhs' package is an optional install. There is no requirement that openSuSE without fhs installed be FHS compatible, is there? Or is openSUSE FHS compatible without the FHS package installed? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Separate /usr?
by Joachim Schrod 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

David Haller wrote: > > In my opinion, the first real opensource program was and is TeX. > > ==== ftp://ftp.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/knuth/dist/tex/tex.web ==== > % This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved. Well, full agreement. Welcome to my world, that's my realm. :-) My first copy of TeX is from 1979, and it's not yet in WEB. It still used SAIL Pascal, and we ported it to our BS2000 mainframe. I was responsible to write the DVI driver (in assembler, at this time) for a needle printer with a whopping 120dpi. We produced books on that, it beat typewriter-style manuscripts with hand-written formulas by miles. Within the wider TeX community, I'm active and visible as a developer since 1982. Since some time I'm not active in the LaTeX core group any more (my major accomplishment there was the kernel internationalizaton that Babel uses and that went into 2e), but I'm still upstream for some DVI drivers and for xindy, and I'm one of three remaining CTAN maintainers. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod(a)acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Portrait printing in 12.1
by James Knott 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Is there a problem with portrait printing in openSUSE 12.1 or LibreOffice. I have a form that I have printed out many times in landscape mode. Today, I tried again, but cannot print landscape mode. I upgraded to 12.1 since the last time I printed that form. The document page layout is landscape and it makes no difference whether I set the printer to portrait or landscape. The printer is the Dell Laser Printer 1100. If I print to PDF and then print the PDF, it prints the correct layout. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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