September 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Problem Installing Older Distro
by Bob Rea 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

I recently acquired a Lenovo 515 Desktop. I tried to install 11.3 which I had downloaded a while back and accidentally blew away Windows 8.1, which was an ugly mess. One I got it installed and running KDE, it set the resolution of the Dell P990. No other resolution is available. This means that the viewport is too small. Some apps I have scroll bars and others not. I am managing to download 13.1, which was impossible on Windows for some reason. I have no other computer. Has anyone else had suck a problem, and if so, how have you dealt with it. And maybe I could use some live help in the Atlanta US area, specifically Norcross, GA. -- 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] OrgX KDE Mozilla latency
by Anton Aylward 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

So far I've only noticed this being acute in the Mozilla apps but I'll experiment with others. I pretty much live, some days, with email and web browser, those being Thunderbird and Firefox. This last week or so I've noticed latency problems For example, when I click on 'send' or 'spelling' there is a delay of more than a second before the dialog box comes up. There is no delay with typing in the composition window or scrolling the message list. I get a similar effect in Firefox. If it were just Thunderbird I'd think that Thunderbird(gtk) on KDE on X was having problems creating new windows and dialog boxes (especially modal ones!), but with firefox there gets to be latency n scrolling. I don't think its just rendering as its not simply page or begin/end jumps. Scrolling one line at a time with the mouse wheel or clicking the arrow on the scroll bar has latency. And its a 'sometimes' phenomena and that 'sometimes' can apply to the same page at the same site. When I use the bottom pane to switch application windows there is no latency. And no I'm not running Plasma and yes I am fully up to date | Alias | Name 1 | KDE_Current | KDE_Current 2 | KDE_Current_Extra | KDE_Current_Extra 3 | Kernel_standard | Kernel_standard 4 | Toganm_Photography | Toganm Photography 5 | X11_Xorg | X11_Xorg 6 | LibreOffice | LibreOffice 7 | Filesystems | BuildService - filesystems 8 | download.opensuse.org-mozilla | BuildService - Mozilla [snip] Any ideas why the latency? -- The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and i'm not even too sure about that one" -- Dennis Huges, FBI. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Problem Installing Older Distro]
by Bob Rea 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Problem Installing Older Distro From: "Bob Rea" <gapetard(a)stsams.org> Date: Fri, September 12, 2014 2:35 pm To: "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Bob Rea" <gapetard(a)stsams.org> "Chuck Payne" <terrorpup(a)gmail.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, September 12, 2014 12:38 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Chuck Payne and I both live in Atlanta. > > > I've been pretty busy recently so not sure I could help too much. My > office is in Buckhead if you ever get down that way. > > I don't know where Chuck lives/works. > > > I think there are a couple other heavy openSUSE users in town, but not > many. > > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer Thank you. If anyone wants to help, I am free almost any time; I'm retired. I will also forward this to the list; my webmail client doesn't make it easy to add that address to the cc. Bob Rea 770-409-8143 -- 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] Qt Quick Controls Examples
by Luis Manuel de Vries 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, I have installed the latest stable Qt5 from the following repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_13.1/ All works fine, but I am missing the examples for Qt Quick controls. I did install the different Qt5 example packages. Is the examples package for Quick Controls missing? When using the installer from the Qt Website Download section, Qt does include the controls examples (they show up in QtCreator). Thanks for your help, Luis Manuel -- 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] playing vids etc in chromium fails but works in opera
by ianseeks 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

hi I'm using Chromium Version 36.0.1985.125 (283153) and Opera 12.16 and opera plays vids but Chromium doesn't. I downloaded updates via "zypper -l up" this morning and a new flash-player version was installed. It was working fine yesterday. Is anyone else having this issue? Do i have to do anything in Chromium regarding this update of flash-player? regards Ian Information for package flash-player: ------------------------------------- Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss Name: flash-player Version: 11.2.202.406-66.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 20.9 MiB Summary: Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player Description: This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application. -- 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: Hard Disk Upgrades
by Linda Walsh 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

John Andersen wrote: > On 9/11/2014 3:26 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Compare RAID 5, 6, 50, 60 against the same using linux >> mdraid setups. Check your throughput as well as cpu usage. >> I think you'll find the mdraid version notably more taxing on >> your cpu. > > Nope. > > Even on relative old hardware mdraid never makes it to the > top of top no matter how busy the system is. CPU load is > trivial. Disappearingly so. --- That wasn't my experience with RAID5 or RAID6 (didn't try 50/60 at the time). RAID6 was near unusable. > Its pretty clear you are just mouthing the platitudes of raid card > vendors. --- Yes, actual testing showing differences is what I believe in. With the same disks, RAID5 w/md5raid topped out at under 300MB/s writes, ~600MB reads. HW raid at the time was 500-600MB/s writes and ~1000MB/s reads. Run some tests, that's what we did. Even in the days > of 486 processors as servers, raid-cards never did pay, and we > sent the expensive ($4000 as I recall) back. --- Dual processor +1G cache RAID card have seen listed for a hair under 500. A new Xeon from Intel: 1200-1800. Now some of those figures are a few years old, but $4000???... maybe back 15-20 years ago? I do remember the md-driver being less demanding in what drives it allowed. It would accept any drive -- with speeds varying by as much as 20% from slowest to fastest in the desktop HD segment. The LSI controller failed 11 out of 14 desktop drives for being out of spec. (desktop drives had mistakenly been sent instead of server). Variance of drives accepted as 'GOOD' by LSI controller: <1%. > With today's newer multi-core processors you simply can not > make a business case for raid cards over MDRaid. --- Spending $500 to NOT trash system cache and get a 2x I/O boost that constantly monitors flags and rebuilds seems like it would be worth it. That's also for an extra eight 6Gb ports you wouldn't have without some sort of HW outlay. I havn't benched the md-drivers lately, when I did they were not yet multi-cpu capable (so all checks and rebuilds happened in a single core. I know that has changed, which would tend to hide cpu usage with it getting done about 10x faster on a 10-core Xeon. I also had the experience of having my md-raid5 corrupted twice after a system crash before I decided it wasn't quite what I wanted in reliability. -- 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] Pulse/Alsa compression, equalizer, limiter
by Michael Fischer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Google has not been my friend on this topic, unless I'm running Ubuntu, which I am not. I am running openSuSE 12.3. Can anyone point to a 12.3-friendly way to get a compressor and equalizer going? A limiter if such exists would be great too. Preferably one which can be handled via alsamixer or similar, as I do not generally run the KDE or gnome environments/apps. I *think* I'm looking for a SuSE 12.3-friendly way of doing: http://askubuntu.com/questions/31580/is-there-a-way-of-leveling-compressing… Many thanks. Michael -- 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] Firefox memory leak
by Jim Sabatke 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

For quite some time, and across a couple versions of OpenSuse (13.1 currently) I've had terrible problems with Firefox. It displays the usual memory leak problems that programs often show, getting slower and slower until it becomes unresponsive until I kill it and restart. Sometimes it happens within minutes of restarting, so I think it's related to whatever technology the web pages are using. I just did one of those FaceBook polls where you select radio buttons, and that one stopped Firefox dead in it's tracks. Over the past year, I've upgraded Firefox through official channels. Is there any recommendation for a version that works? Thanks, Jim -- 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] Running e2fsck to check ext4 files system
by Basil Chupin 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

In the past I would boot into oS in Level #1 and then execute, as root, the command- mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda<x> followed by e2fsck dev/sda<x> However, when I try to do same at the moment I get the 'error' message stating that "sda<x> is BUSY. I need to check the condition of the file system to determine whether my HDD is failing or it is the ext4 file system is corrupted. (I am running oS 13.1 with the latest updates and with KDE 14.4.x and kernel 3.16.1-8.x.) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.3 & kernel 3.16.1-4 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 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] Hard Disk Upgrades
by Paul Groves 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

I have a 160GB 3.5" Disk for my swap and root partitions and it has a few bad sectors. I would like to change this disk to a 2.5" 160GB Disk I also have a 500GB 3.5" disk for my home partition that I would like to replace with 2x1TB 2.5" in RAID1 (Mirror) Does anyone have any advice on how I should go about upgrading my disks? I have not had to do this in linux before and would like to get it right first time. All I know is that cloning the disk in the case of my root drive will not work due to the disk ID but I cannot find a working guide on how to do this correctly.. I have no clue what to do for the RAID. My MoBo supports RAID, should I use this functionality or set up a software RAID with opensuse? What are the steps to replace a disk in a mirror if one was to fail? Is it a simple process like on my FreeNAS? I am using 13.1 -- Paul Groves -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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