January 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: hardware
by Chuck Davis 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

I wanted to see what cpu a box had in it this a.m. and am distressed to discover the nice hardware profile we used to have (in YaST) is gone. What are we supposed to do now to find out what hardware is in a box? Thanks for direction....

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Re: hardware
by David C. Rankin 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

On 1/28/23 11:28, Chuck Davis wrote: > I wanted to see what cpu a box had in it this a.m. and am distressed to > discover the nice hardware profile we used to have (in YaST) is gone. What > are we supposed to do now to find out what hardware is in a box? > > Thanks for direction.... Gah... Just: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Video Borked
by lxmark 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

Hi, I'm running Tumbleweed on my desktop computer, and after I did an update I've lost ability to boot up to graphics mode. The computer boots to a text prompt mark@localhost:~> only. It won't boot to graphics if I wait, nor will it go to graphics if I input startx. It will boot to graphics if I switch to root (su), then input startx, but it only goes to a black screen with a cursor arrow visible that I can move with the mouse, and never boots to full graphics. If I try to boot the current kernel (6.1.8.1) in recovery mode it won't boot to graphics. If I boot the previous kernel it will only boot to the user@localhost prompt. If I boot the previous kernel (6.1.7.1) in recovery mode it will boot to graphics desktop, but I think that it might be using a driver such as vesa because the rendering is not sharp nor in the right adjustment to the size of the screen. If I type lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' in konsole I get the output 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) Subsystem: PNY Device 0719 Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia 03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller Comparing that output to the output I get on another computer that booted normally, also running Tumbleweed, I got: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) Subsystem: PNY Device 0719 Kernel Driver: Nouveau Kernel modules: noveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia From what little I understand about this, I gather that opensuse is supposed to autoload nouveau during boot because something went wrong during a routine update. It seems that isn't happening, but maybe my understanding is incorrect. In any event, I need help to fix this. Thanks, Mark

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[oS-en] Black firefox.
by Carlos E. R. 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It happened to me 3 or 4 times. Suddenly, when I switch to Firefox, the window is black. All firefox windows of the same profile (another profile that was running stays unaffected), in all the workspaces. I could go and close windows one by one, but on restart it would be impossible to restart all of them. I have to close all of them at one go so that restore previous sesion works. So the only thing to do is "killall firefox". And not always works. I did: cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 cer@Telcontar:~> kill 6793 bash: kill: (6793) - No such process <=== the parent process of all of them - no dice cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found <=== but I could see it was still running. cer@Telcontar:~> killall firefox firefox: no process found cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox cer@Telcontar:~> killall /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: no process found <=== now it worked. cer@Telcontar:~> Of course, this also killed my other running profile (or instance, if you will). Is there a better way? Maybe a kill command that automatically finds and kill all siblings at a single go? Anybody has seen this problem? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9QZ5Rwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVdC0AnR5NKeo6LI7ZjBrzVxgp lIgw5K0GAJ0da7bTrsOmkuzj1yz94gpyB0MkWw== =c1NF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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update repository
by Michael Spartana 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hi, I'm on tumbleweed, and it's seems like a long that Update Repository has had any updates.....are we still using it? using zypper....the other repositories seem fine... mike

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[oS-EN] Rebellious mouse
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, At this secondary location I have a rebellious mouse. It is a Logitech M90. A simple thing, a red LED pointing to the table and some sensor that decodes movement directly. No ball. With cable. It doesn't work well on the table (smooth white PVC), so I put it on a paper. One of those with millilitre lines for science graphs. Well, sometimes it moves and then stops, like if the ghost ball would be dirty and not moving well the ancient wheels inside, stuck. So I bang the mouse against the table as if to dislodge the dirt (there is none) from the non existing ball and wheels, and the funny thing is, it works again. What could be really be causing this? Leap 15.4, XFCE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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[oS-EN] New monitor when sent to sleep doesn't awake
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, I have a new monitor on this old machine at a secondary location. Got it cheap, a returned item to a shop. An LG 22MP410, connected to my old machine with Nvidia graphics. The problem is that (apparently) when the desktop sends the display to sleep for inactivity, pressing a key doesn't wake it up. Nor disconnecting both cables. What works is pressing the menu key of the monitor. I am using XFCE desktop on Leap 15.4. Screensaver is disabled. Power Manager / Display is set to - Blank after 10 minutes - put to sleep after 10 minutes - Switch off after 30 minutes. But it is all deactivated! (I had it deactivated for the previous display, decades old hardware, that would hang the machine on sleep. I will try to activate it and see). Hum... Now that I write this, I'm suspecting that it was "powered off". But this thing doesn't have a power on/off switch! It has a... tiny "joystick" in a recess under the bottom edge. It can be pressed, which activates the menu, and moved to the sides as a cursor key. I found it by blind touching everywhere this morning. The papers don't mention it. Maybe it went to sleep because the monitor, not the computer, decided so... no, that is set to 4 hours. It was the computer. Elesar:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard 18: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: VCu0.on6Ysc6JyT1 Parent ID: H0_h.3kPMz12AcD0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia G96C [GeForce 9500 GT]" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0640 "G96C [GeForce 9500 GT]" SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]" SubDevice: pci 0x1573 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nouveau" Driver Modules: "nouveau" Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x9c00-0x9c7f (rw) Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 32 (2267233 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000640sv00001462sd00001573bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: nouveau is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #30 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #18 Elesar:~ # hwinfo --monitor 31: None 00.0: 10002 LCD Monitor [Created at monitor.125] Unique ID: rdCR.uluPkDjUuA7 Parent ID: VCu0.on6Ysc6JyT1 Hardware Class: monitor Model: "LG ELECTRONICS LG FULL HD" Vendor: GSM "LG ELECTRONICS" Device: eisa 0x5bfb "LG FULL HD" Serial ID: "" Resolution: 720x400@70Hz Resolution: 640x480@60Hz Resolution: 640x480@75Hz Resolution: 800x600@60Hz Resolution: 800x600@75Hz Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@75Hz Resolution: 1152x864@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@60Hz Resolution: 1920x1080@60Hz Size: 480x270 mm Year of Manufacture: 2016 Week of Manufacture: 1 Detailed Timings #0: Resolution: 1920x1080 Horizontal: 1920 2008 2052 2200 (+88 +132 +280) +hsync Vertical: 1080 1084 1089 1125 (+4 +9 +45) +vsync Frequencies: 148.50 MHz, 67.50 kHz, 60.00 Hz Driver Info #0: Max. Resolution: 1920x1080 Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz Hor. Sync Range: 30-85 kHz Bandwidth: 148 MHz Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (VGA compatible controller) Elesar:~ # Elesar:~ # inxi -G Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G96C [GeForce 9500 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: NV96 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.2.4 Elesar:~ # inxi CPU: Quad Core Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 (-MCP-) speed: 2841 MHz Kernel: 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default x86_64 Up: 4h 47m Mem: 4667.4/7942.3 MiB (58.8%) Storage: 232.89 GiB (14.7% used) Procs: 301 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.07 Elesar:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)

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Brasero showing twice in gnome software (Installed)
by Pete Thorsen Jr. 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi, I've installed Brasero from the gnome software application, which said that it was installed from the opensuse repo. When I click on the “Installed” tab of the gnome software application, it indicates that Brasero is installed twice. Originally, I wrote to the Brasero folks about this. They said that they couldn't do anything about it. I wrote to the Gnome folks, I never heard back from anyone. Now I am writing here hoping to clean up this bug. One of the Brasero devs replied to me and said, “Your distro provides the PackageKit back-end from which the information comes.” Hopefully, someone here can pass along this information to get it looked at and fix it so that only one instance appears in the Installed software tab of the gnome software application. Thanks in advance, Pete

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Cut and paste
by Marc Chamberlin 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

I have noticed an intermittent problem on my OpenSuSE 15.3 and 15.4 x64 systems running KDE/Plasma desktop and I wonder if others are seeing it also and what can be done to fix it. Cut/Copy and Paste does not always work. Particularly noticeable in Firefox and Thunderbird, though Kate, Emacs, LibreOffice and other apps as well, display the problem. I select a string of characters from somewhere, even within an app itself, like Thunderbird, right click the mouse to Copy or Cut the selection, then try an paste it either somewhere back in the app itself, or in some other app, and the paste operation fails. It acts and if there is nothing to paste and the paste menu item remains grayed out and unusable. Sometime Ctrl V works and sometimes not. I usually double check what's in the the Clipboard KDE/Plasma to make sure that what I tried to Copy or Cut is at the top of the clipboard app, and it always is. Kinda annoying and sometimes it is impossible to get the Cut/Copy and Paste to work at all. Sometimes it does work and I have no idea why or what causes the Cut/Copy and Paste to work in some cases and not in others. Any ideas? Thanks in advance as always.... Marc...

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KDE bug fix inquiry
by Marc Chamberlin 24 Jan '23

24 Jan '23

This is probably the wrong group to ask, but I will start here and then follow any pointers to where I should ask my question... I am running Leap 15.4 with the KDE/Plasma desktop. There is a bug, reported and fixed/resolved - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453280 which is bugging me now. This was resolved last year (June) and I am wondering when this fix will show up in an update for my system? It is annoying to have to log out and log back in whenever this problem shows up on my systems, so I thought I would ask and hopefully get an update soon that fixes it. Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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