June 2019 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Setting up JACK?
by Mikhail Ramendik 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Hello, I would like to set up my Leap 15.1 system so that one program (GrandOrgue) uses the JACK audio server. For Web browsers etc, I'd rather have PulseAudio working through JACK, so that volume control is available for them; but before I get to that I need to run JACK. And for now there is no PulseAudio on the system and no sound in browsers. There is ALSA, and aplay works. hw:1,0 is the proper output so I had to create /etc/asound.conf. However, by default JACK is off. I had to install QJackCtl. If I just strat JACK, it fails. But if I go to setup, select the card, then start JACK, it succeeds, and then GrandOrgue works with it. So, question one: how can I make JACK start by default, ideally even before user login, and with the right card (hw:1,0) selected? And also, GrandOrgue, when configured for JACK, complains that it cannot use real-rime scheduling (RR/5) (1: Operation not permitted). So question 2: how do I fix this? (In Fedora this one gets fixed if you add the user to the jack group, but I see no jack group in OpenSUSE). -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] Configuring a default WLAN connection?
by Mikhail Ramendik 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Hello, I am trying to create a very very lightweight OpenSuse environment, so as to give maximum resources to GrandOrgue for playing an organ. It will be running IceWM. I would still like to have the ability to go online from the same machine. But I don't want to run nm-applet at all times. Ideally I'd want to keep Network Manager, but to have a default connection for my home wi-fi, and only start nm-applet if I want some other network or if I am experiencing problems. So how can I set a default/system/etc Network Manager connection? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] Major delays (in IceWM, TWM) with most any GUI window?
by Mikhail Ramendik 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Hello, It turned out that nm-applet was not the only thing that triggers major delays in icewm in my new installation. Starting yast or vlc or firefox also leads to response becoming delayed by seconds and sometines minutes. Stopping the application does not help, only Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does. If I switcht to a virtual text terminal and run top, I see no significant CPU load. xterm does not cause the issue. Nor does icem's built-in Help. Nor XScreenSaver preferences. But I installed qt-creator - and it does cause the issue. So it's not just a gtk thing. Then I tried a TWM session and the issue happened (with yast) in that session as well. How do I troubleshoot this? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] Banish amdgpu video driver
by Mikhail Ramendik 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Hello, I am suspecting that the "long delays" issue I am having is caused by the amdgpu video driver. However, I can not even test this, because I can't find a way to banish it. I tried adding a file with modesetting to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; no luck. I tried adding "blacklist amdgpu" to /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf - no luck, the module still loads. How do I banish this driver to see if this resolves the issue? Also, the screen is a touch screen. So I suspect that with another driver I might lose the touch functionality. But first, I need to make sure whether this driver is at fault at all. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] Making Windows 10 play ball with grub?
by Mikhail Ramendik 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Hello, I have installed OpenSUSE 15.1 on a laptop where Windows 10 is already installed the boot system is EFI. GRUB includes a Windows Boot Manager option. However, if I reboot from Windows, I just get Windows. To get Grub, I need to hold Shift when rebooting, then select "Use a device" and then "OpenSUSE". How can I make every reboot show Grub? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] Major reaction delays in icewm with nm-applet
by Mikhail Ramendik 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Hello, I have installed OpenSUSE 15.1 on a laptop with an AMD A6 APU. I installed the basic X Window setup with IceWM. But I need some way to manage the Wi-Fi, so I started nm-applet. But with nm-applet running I am seeing major delays in reaction to keyboard presses and clicks, to the degree of a minute or more. Whether I drag windows, type something into anything, etc etc. The mouse does move but delays make the system unusable. So I need to troubleshoot and fix this issue. Or else I need to replace nm-applet with something else that would run under icewm and give me a tray with wi-fi management. I would appreciate help in either task. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- 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] cups -> ps !level! -> faxprinter
by Simon Becherer 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

Hi, in short words: i need help to find out how cups sets (internal inside his filter queue) the postscript-level: issue: difference in printing on 2 "normaly identical" systems with same ppd-files: ========================================================================= i have 2 tumbleweed x86-64 machines, same snapshoot, same network. one was updated from older opensuse versions to tumbleweed (=laptop), other (desktop) setup direct (about 2 years in past) to tumbleweed. i have 4 network-printers installed and cups-pdf: 2 qmsminolta one brother-mfc-7460dn and this brother also as fax-printer. i am able to print to all printers with both machines except the fax-printer reacts difference. the fax printer will fax-and-on-the-receifing-fax-machine print also with both machines. =============================================================== BUT withe the laptop text is only shown as empty squares. =============================================================== here is what i found out / how i installed: i have had printer installed only at the desktop machine: i set up the brother mfc with the packages: printer: mfc7460dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm cupswrapperMFC7460DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm and fax: brmfcfaxlpd-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm brmfcfaxcups-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm from brother homepage. up to sometimes after summer last year after a update from libreoffice 5.x to 6? (because they changes something at the behavior the file: /home/mymachine/.config/libreoffice/4/user/psprint/psprint.conf i have to patch 2 files: usr/share/cups/model/brfax_cups.ppd etc/cups/ppd/brfax_cups.ppd usr/lib/cups/filter/brfaxfilter according to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89996 now fax from libreoffice worked fine again. ----------------------------------------------- last week i set up all printers in the laptop (it has never had to print before). for this i installed the packages above and patched the files. all printing is fine, faxing will fax, but text when faxing is only empty sqares. then i copied all files including subdirectory's from DESKTOP to LAPTOP: /etc/cups/..... /usr/share/cups/...... /usr/lib/cups /usr/local/brother/..... no difference. then i hacked a little inside the file: /usr/lib/cups/filter/brfaxfilter set there the loglevel to 4 and did not delete the INPUT_TEMP_PS file. the input file is pdf, generated from libreoffice, is identical. (this could be seen when you have to put in faxnumber) in /tmp) but then cups generate a ps file for the queue which will later in the queue translated to the printer specific fax-format and this PS-file is on both machines different: (the input_tmp_ps file): ---- input postscript file ---- (on DESKTOP working OK) %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %Produced by poppler pdftops version: 0.72.0 (http://poppler.freedesktop.org) %%Creator: LibreOffice 6.2.3.2 %%LanguageLevel: 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend) %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () () %%For: (simon) %%Title: (4378) %RBINumCopies: 1 %%Pages: (atend) %%BoundingBox: (atend) %%EndComments %%BeginProlog ...snip..... ============================================================== ---- input postscript file ---- (on LAPTOP not working) %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %Produced by poppler pdftops version: 0.72.0 (http://poppler.freedesktop.org) %%Creator: LibreOffice 6.2.3.2 %%LanguageLevel: 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend) %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () () %%For: (simon) %%Title: (4378) %RBINumCopies: 1 %%Pages: (atend) %%BoundingBox: (atend) %%EndComments %%BeginProlog =========================================== i am not sure if the ps-level is the real problem with the missing chars, but its the first difference i found, so: i checked that pstopdf and pstops is from same repo, i know the laptop has addition the latex packages installed. both files are on both machines identical /usr/bin/... (which pstops and which pdftops shows this path in both machines) i tried in printer dialog from libreoffice set the language (who is for both machines set to "automatic pdf) to ps-level3, no difference i checked inside the users for cups files, could not find the .cups subdir i set up a new user on laptop, no difference i tried to use different charsets in libreoffice: liberation-serif and times-new-roman (fetchmsfonts are installed on both machines) - no difference i take again a look inside both machines ppd files: *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brfaxfilter" *%==== Basic Device Capabilities ============= *LanguageLevel: "3" ====================================== so where to the hell is something who tell the laptop to use ps-level 2 ????????????????????? for processing this cups filter queue ????? i am out of ideas simoN -- www.becherer.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] http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/15.0/non-oss/
by Dave Howorth 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

Is download.opensuse.org working? I can't contact it with YaST but ping responds. -- 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] Laptop experience
by Roger Oberholtzer 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

I'm considering getting a Dell XPS 13 (9380) to run Tumbleweed. Although it can be bought with Ubuntu, which implies decent Linux compatibility, I'm curious if anyone has experience running Tumbleweed on this computer? It will probably be delivered with Windows 10 as that is the most common model in Sweden. I won't run Ubuntu anyway. I recall someone saying that the Windows license is in the BIOS (or whatever the comparable place is called these days), and that Windows can get the license from there. Meaning that I might be able to install Windows in VirtualBox and the delivered license be used. (VB would pass this info on?) That's nor a requirement. Just curious if I got that right. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] Boost on Tumbleweed
by Roger Oberholtzer 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

Mysteriously, the c++ Boost libraries are not built for Tumbleweed https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel%3Alibraries%3Ac_c%2B%2B/boost… Should one just add Factory repo? I try not to mix these things... I see that it has been done for 1.66 by a user. I don't know if the build works. But it builds. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3Acshnick/boost-static-devel Anyone know why it's not built for Tumbleweed? -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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