July 2018 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Help required to install Leap-15 on a machine with a nVidia / Intel setup
by James PEARSON 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Hello I can not install Leap 15.0 (openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64.iso downloaded today) on a friend's old Asus X53S laptop. This was a bit unexpected because the machine was running a dual boot setup Win7 / openSUSE-42.1 that I installed a few years ago. A sticker on the laptop sayes that it has a "GEFORCE GT540M CUDA 2GB" card. The installation of Leap 15.0 stops abruptly at boot menu right after I select "Leap 15.0" to initiate the installation : Loading initial kernel... Loading initial ramdisk... I tried hitting 'e' at the boot menu screen at the beginning of the Leap 15.0 installation and then scrolling down to the line that begins "linuxefi" and adding "nomodeset" at the end.. Existing line was : linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=silent I added nomodeset like this : linuxefi /boot/x86_64/loader/linux splash=silent nomodeset After which I hit Ctrl + X or F10 to contine booting. This changed nothing. The installation of Leap 15.0 stops abruptly as before. I also had the same problem trying to install Leap-15.0 with the openSUSE-Leap-15.0-NET-x86_64.iso I downloaded TW (openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso) and it installed fine. :) The Asus X53S video details on TW setup follow : linux-ws6z:~ # lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2] Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 -- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] [10de:0df4] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15f2] Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau I also dug out an old usb key which had Leap-42.3. When I tried installing it, I had same problem - that is the installation of Leap-42.3 stoped abruptly at boot menu with the same info : Loading initial kernel... Loading initial ramdisk... Any and all help to install Leap-15.0 and/or comments are appreciated. TIA Regards James -- 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] no way to get nvidia modules loaded?
by Daniel Bauer 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

I start a new thread to not mix up things. I have an Asus GL552V laptop, i7 6700, optimus graphics intel/nvidia running opensuse leap 42.3, KDE The nvidia drivers are installed, but they are not loaded. I have no idea why. I completely removed everything nvidia, disabling the opensuse.nvidia repository. Then booted in init 3 and installed those drivers again using yast. I hoped this fresh istall would make them appear loaded, but no. It is possible that due to the many things I tried to get this optimus stuff running again (it worked under 13.x using suse-prime) that there is some mess in the things installed or not installed. But I don't know what is needed and what not and where to begin to search.... By the way the is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file on my system and yast said something about that when installing the nvidia drivers. I have a xorg.conf.bak and a xorg.conf.install, furthermore a xorg.conf.nvidia-post and xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original. I copied xorg.conf.bak (and later xorg.conf.install) to xorg.conf, but with this I could not reach the graphical kde login anymore. So I deleted it again. An here I am. So, if you think there is any hope that I can use the nvidia card on this optimus laptop, please help! I guess the first thing is to have those nvidia drivers loaded. And then go further from there... -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- 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] graphics problems with intel (single windows flickering) - still no solution for optimus?
by Daniel Bauer 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Hello, I still suffer from my expensive useless laptop. Besides that the nvidia card is not running no way, even the intel graphics makes problems: sometimes (often!) one window or one message (like the alert when mails arrive) flickers. In text windows like this email or in kwrite or in console sometimes the text hops up and down some lines, sometimes freshly written text appears and disappears and the former text lines reformat. Sometimes a website in firefox (or any other browser) flickers, hops up and down for maybe 50 pixels, sometimes in digikam the album tree appears and disappears. It happens always just in one window, sometimes one in the background (so the visible part flickers), sometimes the active one. If text flickers (moves up and down etc.) sometimes I can solve it if I scroll a bit and it keeps quiet for a while... All /really/ annoying. So: still the question: is there any way to make the nvidia graphics run on Linux? and: how can I accomplish that at least the weak intel graphics do the normal work? I already accepted that on this laptop I cannot view high res videos, but at least that flickering should go away, somehow... This is opensuse 42.3, KDE on a Asus GL552V laptop, i7 6700, optimus graphics (intel graphics cannot be disabled in BIOS, I checked) Any new ideas more than welcome! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- 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] upgrading KDE in Leap
by stakanov 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Is it possible to upgrade KDE in Leap? Does this require also an upgrade of QT? Does this upgrade also akonadi? (as akonadi/kontact in Leap 15 is getting a serious problem - system overheat, memory leak, crash on restart of Kontact). If somebody has experience with the procedure I would appreciate a trace of: - what repos - what zypper command - experiences with the current kde version regarding kontact/akonadi _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Ihre E-Mail-Postf�cher sicher & zentral an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und alte E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://www.eclipso.de -- 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] video4linux
by Dave Howorth 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

So I just tried to build the current video4linux (266752) for opensuse Leap 42.3 and it fails. It starts by issuing a bunch of warnings and finally an error because openSUSE has backported a changed kernel API for get_user_pages that doesn't match its stated kernel version, which v4l uses to try to compile against a variety of kernels. Does anybody know what that is all about? Also, would upgrading to Leap 15 solve the problem and let me compile v4l, or would it just leave me even more frustrated? -- 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] preventing programs from accessing the net
by Dave Howorth 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

What's the best/easiest way to stop a program accessing the net? I want to run a program (actually 'make') that may in turn run other programs and some of which might try to access the net. I'd like the access to be stopped and me given a meaningful error message (i.e. what part of what program tried to access what net resource). Ideally, I'd then have the choice of aborting or allowing it to continue. Searching throws up various possibilities, some of which are not in the standard repositories, and I'm not sure what the best approach is. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Subject: Re: [opensuse] Looking around
by Roger Price 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Stevens wrote: > My story: A few days ago we were greeted with a beeping ups when we awakened > Determined finally that the power supply for my desktop (OS13.1) had failed > and took the motherboard with it. A little off-topic, but could you tell us the name of this UPS unit which is happy to beep when wall power fails, but which cannot protect your motherboard? Some UPS's include insurance. Does yours? Roger -- 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] /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
by Dave Howorth 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Where does /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build come from? Or alternately, what should its value be? It is apparently needed to build kernel modules, but is not present on my system in /lib/modules/4.4.138-59-default/ I do have kernel-default-devel, kernel-devel, kernel-source and kernel-syms installed. I see various suggestions on the web but the answer appears to depend on the distro and version (which is 42.3). -- 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] What means this on Yast?
by Carlos E. R. 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I manually added repository packman on Leap 15.0 (by URL). I then tried to change priority from 99 to 98. Yast warned: Repository 'Ext_Packman' is managed by service". Your manual changes might be reset by the next service refresh! What on earth is that!? Note: The string «service".», I guess that '"' was '"', but I can not actually make it out what it was, too tiny. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAls39V4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WgZgCfdAQbif2+CRAeW8/JwRhHUsXq ZRgAnjWRIdmmd4ycWsfc2M5j682lKDer =ue0h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] Is there some site or package with optional apparmor profiles for openSUSE?
by Carlos E. R. 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there some site or package with optional apparmor profiles for openSUSE? I'm interested in one for acrobat reader for 15.0 I made my own, but I want to look at others, perhaps switch. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltJzS8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XvOwCcDbN7u9Frwlw+srbNXQ1axR++ wroAn0rIlo6ziQMxVc0LZAffpQtNF40s =BH7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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