December 2024 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

15.5 and TW Nvidia G04 (and x11-video-nvidiaG04) patched, built and available -- 15.6 still need triage
by David C. Rankin 11 Jan '25

11 Jan '25

Nvidia G04 users, I've branched, patched for the 6.12 kernel, built and published the Nvidia G04 driver for TW as a stop-gap until the openSUSE drivers catch up. The repository with the G04 driver for Leap 15.5 and Tumbleweed is: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty:/branches:/hom… The 15.6 driver needs an additional patch that Stefan had in the X11:Drivers repo - but a branch of that package fails for 15.6 as well. Still need to look into it. The buildservice repositories are: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:drankinatty:branches:home:wkaz… I've installed the packages and duped to the 6.12 kernel in Tumbleweed and all is good on my laptop. There are some odd kde3 dependencies that led me to download and "rpm -Uvh" the new nvidia rpms - as zypper wanted to uninstalled kde3. After that a "zypper dupe" worked fine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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6.12 is out for TW, but not nvidia G04 or G05 packages yet? Plans or do we build our own again?
by David C. Rankin 11 Jan '25

11 Jan '25

Devs, Does anybody know when we can expect the nvidia G04 or G05 driver builds for Tumbleweed now that the 6.12 kernel is released for TW? It took months for drivers to appear in https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed after the 6.11 kernel was released for TW. I was hoping that was a one-off. We had posted and revised the patch for the G04 (390xx) driver here on 11/24 (see: "Linux 6.12 kernel Nvidia G04 - patch") and I can throw that in build-service to build drivers for 6.12, but then that leaves my TW repos out of sync with the official repos. I know things are slow during the holidays -- and that's good -- spend time with family, but do we have an idea when the TW nvidia drivers will be updated? At least then we could know whether setting up another buildservice build is worth it -- or if the openSUSE drivers appear later this week we can avoid the waste of time? Let me know -- if you know. I've held off upgrade of my laptop pending either having official drivers or rolling my own -- and it's probably better if it doesn't get too many weeks out of sync. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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SSD monitoring utility
by joe a 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

Opinions on use of Hard Disk Sentinel? I've had it recommended as a means of being warned about impending SSD (and other storage media) failure, which I understand could, fail (ab?)normally quite sudden and catastrophic manner. Never used SSD before, but plan to put a couple in a Win . . . uhh . . . mass market GUI oriented "OS". They do have a Linux version also which I will test on my own. So there. Why ask here? Well, you all know everything, don't you? Besides, lack of hostile commentary has left me a bit nostalgic this holiday season.

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Help repairing boot capability of HP-g6-2321dx Laptop PC):
by -pj 31 Dec '24

31 Dec '24

Hi, and good day to you🥶. I have a 64bit HP Laptop and I was attempting to install then enforce SELinux and it simply just kept locking me out (I created a custom snapshot) to fall back on and retry more easily. The final *blow* to the boot process is that I made an inappropriate adjustment of some kind with YaST Bootloader tool. It rendered the Laptop *non-bootable*. I have managed to create a functional (for the Laptop) openSUSE live installer with Rescue system with dos disklabel type (shown below): Disk /dev/sdc: 7.46 GiB, 8011120640 bytes, 15646720 sectors Disk model: Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x3e2e59d1 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2892 15239 12348 6M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sdc2 * 15240 9035775 9020536 4.3G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS - I am now able to boot the Laptop into Rescue Mode. I have attached an image of lsblk -f output once rescue mode has been entered.:< https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/dc2de83861f5 the /sda1 vfat FAT32 exists because I did not wipefs prior to installing openSUS Tumbleweed onto the ssd (I think) or is this where the bootloader needs to be placed? UEFI bios boot is off. How can I add a version of grub so that the machine can boot with the legacy boot bios type selected? The experience of trying to get this to boot again is of a good learning value I think. -Thanks

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Test a microSD chip.
by Bill Swisher 30 Dec '24

30 Dec '24

System: Host: opihi Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.30-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6 I've got a microSD chip, the car wants a fat32 so that's what it got, that's causing me problems. I suspect that it's bad, or going bad. Here's what's happening. The first copy. bill@opihi:/home/Cars> rsync -acprv --delete Winter /run/media/bill/CARZ sending incremental file list Winter/ Winter/200000.mp3 Winter/200010.mp3 ... Winter/206740.mp3 Winter/206750.mp3 sent 6,605,314,161 bytes received 12,736 bytes 8,495,597.30 bytes/sec total size is 6,669,006,725 speedup is 1.01 Unmount the device and remove it. Then mount the device and rerun the rsync command. Get 4 files rewritten. Repeat the unmount/remove/mount, rsync and get 3 other files rewritten. So I tried to test it. bill@opihi:/home/Cars> sudo badblocks -sv /dev/sdb Checking blocks 0 to 15196159 Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors) bill@opihi:/home/Cars> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is mounted; it's not safe to run badblocks! bill@opihi:/home/Cars> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sdb /dev/sdb is apparently in use by the system; it's not safe to run badblocks! Unmount the device, but don't unplug it. bill@opihi:/home/Cars> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sdb1 badblocks: No such file or directory while trying to determine device size bill@opihi:/home/Cars> sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sdb badblocks: No medium found while trying to determine device size The smartctl told me nothing of any use. So, where can I go from here?

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Open SuSE on Raspberry Pi5
by Damon Register 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

I was going to check my SuSE list e-mail for info on the subject and discovered that I had been unsubscribed due to bouncing :-( I want to install open SuSE on my Raspberry Pi5 but after a little Google searching, I found some confusing info. Some posts said that Open SuSE doesn't yet support the Pi5. Is that still true? If Open SuSE is available for the Pi5, does anyone in this list have experience with SuSE on the Pi5? Damon Register

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Machine lockups when suspend is envoked:
by -pj 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

Hi, openSUSE Tumbleweed here with KDE. I recently replaced the Nvidia Quadro K600 video card with an AMD RX550 video card in the machine. Issue is that when suspend is envoked there are lockups possibly 15 to 20 percent of the time. Then REISUB is used to complete the powercycle. For a couple weeks I had just left the Nvidia packages and Nvidia kernel boot parameters as they were after installing the rx550 and experienced a lockup during suspend 30 percent of the time. Now I purged the Nvidia packages and removed the Nvidia related kernel boot options and updated grub. Now I have been computing for about 3 weeks total with the RX550. inxi -Gayz output > https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/b87ed48936da - lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa [Radeon 540X/550X/630 / RX 640 / E9171 MCM] (rev c1) Subsystem: Dell Device 1713 Kernel driver in use: amdgpu I have looked a bit into this for instance: passing eglinfo -B as user and not root gives a possible red herring error message > _amdgpu_device_initialize: amdgpu_query_info(ACCEL_WORKING) failed (-13) Really I do believe RX550 is creating the suspend issue somehow. As with the prior video card, suspend was still reliable. How can I troubleshoot this problem more correctly?

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SOT: Libre Office on Windows 11
by Jeffrey Taylor 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

I am running Libre Office on Leap 15.5. I've never had any problem with it. My wife is using Libre Office on Windows 11. It recently had a brain fart and went into "Safe Mode" and deleted the file being worked on. Anyone else seen this and is it frequent? TIA, Jeffrey

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Disk model (identity change) is possible?
by -pj 28 Dec '24

28 Dec '24

I would like to change the USB mediums disk model 'STORE N GO' identity if possible (shown below). # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 57.77 GiB, 62025367552 bytes, 121143296 sectors Disk model: STORE N GO Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes # dmsetup rename /dev/mapper/sdb_crypt Transit-Medium Was able to create a new mapper name: Disk /dev/mapper/Transit-Medium: 57.75 GiB, 62008590336 bytes, 121110528 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Which steps are required to do this? Is it possible to change the "Disk Model" identity? -Thanks

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Nvidia G04 - patched for 6.12 for 15.4, 15.5 and Tumbleweed (15.6 failed - some post-install script), x11-video-nvidiaG04 not triggered?
by David C. Rankin 28 Dec '24

28 Dec '24

All, I've patched the Nvidia 390 (G04) driver for the 6.12 kernel with the patch posted in the prior thread. Build succeeded for Leap 15.4, 15.5 and Tumbleweed, but failed for 15.6. Stefan had a conditional in the .spec specific to 15.6, so I'll have to look into that further. The 15.6 build failure references a file that wasn't found: [ 159s] /.build_patchrpmcheck_scr: line 131: pbl: command not found [ 159s] postinstall script of nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default-390.157_k6.4.0_150600.21-lp156.37.1.x86_64.rpm failed If you need the Nvidia G04 driver until the openSUSE build patches for the 6.12 kernel, you can find the packages at: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty:/branches:/X11… However, for some reason the build isn't triggering the subpackage build of the x11-video-G04 packages -- which is the frustration in trying to use a web-based build interface.... Previously, the x11-video-nvidiaG04 was a subpackage of nvidia-G04, but a new branch of the nvidia-G04 includes the x11-video spec, but the build of the x11 packages isn't triggered. I'll keep working on triggering the x11-video package -- if you have a solution, let me know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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