September 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 12.3: input method can't switch in KDE3, KDE4, Gnome, fvwm
by jdebert 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

I am having troubles after upgrading from 12.1 to 12.3. I hope someone can help me. One problem is that I am no longer able to switch input method on Japanese keyboard using zenkaku-hankaku key or any other defined key combination. I presently have scim and Anthy configured, as it was before the upgrade. System languages are English and Japanese. System is a US laptop with US 104 key. I have attached a Logicool multimedia Japanese keyboard defined as OADG109A in the configuration of KDE3 and Gnome. One problem is that the input method can no longer be switched from the keyboard using zenkaku-hankaku key or any other defined key combination but the keyboard can be switched between US and JA. I am using scim and Anthy, which I've been using since 10.1. System languages are English and Japanese. System is a laptop with US 104 key. Attached is a Logicool Japanese multimedia keyboard defined as OADG109A in the configurations of KDE and Gnome. I am using KDE3 and fvwm. The other window managers are still problematic and not very usable. ibus can only switch input method by much trouble and effort using series of mouse clicks and then it keeps automatically switching input method back to system default keyboard. ibus was uninstalled. scim loads the system default configuration when it restarts. It only reloads the user configuration when user logs out then logs in again. Does this problem seem familiar to anyone? Thank you. jd -- 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] iso file from Blu-Ray disc: how to play it or read contents?
by Basil Chupin 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

I created an iso file from a Blu-Ray disc but am unable to even read what is on the disc nor can I play the movie which I believed was possible when doing same with a standard DVD. Is there some file I need to install in oS in order to be able to play this iso file or is it the case that I need to burn the iso to a 50GB Bd disc before I can view the contents? Thanks for any hints. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.11.1 & kernel 3.11.1-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- 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] auto spin-down of unplugged USB drive
by Peter 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

A laptop I acquired had Ubuntu already installed, and when playing about with that I found that my external 2.5in IDE hard drive, attached via USB, would spin down and its light extinguish when unmounting it, which was quite nifty. In openSUSE, however, across multiple distro versions and machines, on unmounting the device, it remains powered and spinning. Even when I suspend to RAM for the night, although the disk light goes off I can still faintly hear it spinning. I presume this is desktop-agnostic behaviour since the same occurs in both KDE and XFCE. It means I would need to shut down the computer to truly bring the spining to a halt before moving the drive to another machine, which I do a lot. Is there any simple policy that I can adjust somewhere to change this, without delving into tedious configs? -- 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] serious USB problems in openSUSE 12.2
by Istvan Gabor 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Hello: I experience different problems with USB flashdisks in openSUSE 12.2 / KDE 3.5 hal enabled. None of these problems exist in previous oS 11.2 and 12.1 systems. I don't know if any of these are related to KDE 3.5 or hal. The problems appear frequently, most likely when several (eg. two) users are logged in at different vt terminals (eg user 1 on vt7 and user 2 on vt8). 1. Copy / read from USB stick is very slow. The average copy spead is ~ 900 kbit/sec, when it is ~4Mbit/sec in oS 12.1 on the same hardware. 2. Frequent read, input-output errors, file was not found errors. Looks like the system unmounts and remounts the flashdisk during operation. 3. Frequent access errors. Normal directories on the disk have no read permissions. 4. When user 2 on vt8 plugs in a USB stick, he can not safely remove or unmount it. The system asks for root password. But user 1 on vt7 can unmount it normallly. It seems the system allocates the permissions wrongly. This never happened in any previous system, even if several users were logged in. Always that user had the permission who plugged in the stick. That user could remove it safely or unmount it, not the other users. Questions: Anyone else is experiencing such issues? Which of these are probably related to KDE3 and and which to openSUSE 12.2 system? Thanks, Istvan -- 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] help needed to recover dual boot.
by "Albert, Oszkó" 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Hi all, I have (had) a Win XP + openSuSE dual boot system. In the last couple of years I used only the linux part, but now I would need windows again to do some work with some specific software. I faced the problem that I could not boot into windows any more. I see both C: and D: partitions, the latter is for my data etc in windows. How could I make it bootable again, without reinstalling any of the opsystems? Thanks: OszkoA -- 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] Why does asking for a couple of programs install the universe?
by Michael Fischer 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Some unpleasant experiences with yast/zypper today. on a perfectly fine 12.1, I did `zypper up chromium`, which resulted in upgrades of lots of things seemingly quite unrelated to chrome. One of them, which *might* be some strange requirement.... was udev. The install portion at udev crashed the machine, and made it unbootable as it could no longer find the root partition, prompting an early departure from work, hours spent backing up the machine, and an install of 12.3. After the basic install of 12.3, I used yast to download VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree. This somehow required 1040 packages, including gnumeric, kde-wallpapers and gnucash-docs. Just to name a few really silly ones. No way in any sane universe those packages "needed" by VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree. I can understand the billion libxyz's getting installed, and that the dependency management is a lovely slice of hell, but really, was all this necessary in any way? Is there at least some way to say "yes, go ahead and install these dependencies, but stop trying to install random unwanted software on my system?" Is there some strange default setting hiding in yast/zypper which thinks it should take any opportunity possible to install all the things *someone* thought I might want? Michael "13 years SuSE linux user and getting very frustrated with it" -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- 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] Hotel Router problem
by Mark Misulich 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Hi, I have been trying to find some answer to the problem of why I can't stay connected to some hotel's wifi with linux, while I can with windows. In Linux, I can only stay connected for about 10 minutes before I am dropped. I have continually decreasing speed of browsing while I am connected. To reconnect, I have to restart the wireless with #rcnetwork restart. I can do this about 3-5 times until I can no longer connect to the hotel router unless I restart the computer. In Windows7 I have very fast speed of browsing and can stay connected without time limit. In windows7 I have no issue trying to connect at any time, it simply connects right up. I am using Win7 and opensuse 12.3, but this has been an ongoing problem in multiple opensuse versions including 13.1. I am using KDE desktop 4.11 on this installation of opensuse 12.3 from which I am posting this email, but I also have KDE 3.10 installed on a separate installation of opensuse 12.3 on this same laptop computer. After speaking with the tech support on the phone, he says that he shows that I am not connected to their system using the same IP address that we used with win7. I assured him that I was, so I read him my mac address and he was able to see that I was connected. He noticed that the response time for packets is 800 milliseconds in Linux, but is maximum 6 milliseconds in win7. I have some logs from wireshark showing the connection logs for my wlan in Linux and win7 that can be compared if that is advantageous. Once again I am asking for help in trying to fix this issue that has been unresolved for a couple of years now. Thanks, Mark -- 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] Gnome calculator
by Johannes Weberhofer 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Hello! I have OSS 13.1 installed with the latest 3.8 version of Gnome. I have recognized, that I don't have a calculator available, even though the gnome-calculator package is installed. I can also start gnome-calculator directly. Any idea, what can be wrong? Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Weberhofer Weberhofer GmbH, Austria, Vienna -- 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] Improved performance with NVidia drivers
by James Knott 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

I have an Nvidia GEForce 7200 video card in my computer. Ever since I upgraded from openSUSE 11.x to 12.x, I have noticed a severe performance hit. Indications in this group were that it might be a video driver issue. I tried both the Nvidia and Nouveau drivers, but they didn't make much difference. I just added the Nvidia repository and went with their drivers (I had used that repository with 11.x and earlier). What an incredible increase in performance!!! I can't believe it's the same computer. Even even speedtest.net shows a considerable improvement, going from about 2 - 5 Mb/s download to 31! (other, newer computers get about 35). It's absolutely amazing what proper video drivers can do. Perhaps whoever's responsible for the drivers included with the distro should take a 2nd look at their work. They absolutely kill performance, compared to the ones from the Nvidia repository. The performance was often so bad that I was thinking about buying a new computer. Now I won't have to. -- 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] anyone get Starnet x-win32 remote desktops working with OpenSUSE 12.3?
by Jim Faulkner 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

Hi, has anybody gotten x-win32 to work with remote Gnome or XFCE desktops under OpenSUSE 12.3? We're using x-win32 2012 build 103, which I believe is the latest. Both Gnome and XFCE crash when run under x-win32. They crash using both x-win32's plain X11 ssh forwarding mode, as well as the LIVE mode. FWIW, I've filed bugs with Starnet and OpenSUSE: https://starnetlive.fogbugz.com/default.asp?45439_6at52kurc1p1s24t https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840311 Please let me know if anyone has any experience with this, or knows what might be going wrong. -- Jim Faulkner / james.faulkner(a)yale.edu Systems Administrator, Unix Systems, Production Services Yale University Information Technology Services (ITS) =============================================================== NOTE: Yale ITS will NEVER request passwords or other personal information via email. Messages requesting such information are fraudulent and should be deleted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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