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Audio Issues When In-place Upgrading to Leap 15.6
by Lew Wolfgang 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi Folks, I'm encountering audio issues after in-place upgrades from Leap 15.5 to 15.6. Out of three upgrades so far, I lost sound on a HP laptop and a Dell desktop. An MSI desktop is working okay. I have to admit I haven't had sound issues with openSUSE for decades, or so it seems, and I'm rusty a diagnosing what's going on. I vaguely recall a thread here about pulseaudio issues, could this be related? If I'm seeing this on two out of three upgrades this must be a common problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Lew

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KIM (Kde Image Management)
by jdd＠dodin.org 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Hello, On the very last (since some time) Tumbleweed, the very usefull "Kim" menu management do not work anymore (no more right clic menu entries) it's from: https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=kim&project=home%3Ab… before disturbing Bruno, do you have the same problem, or is my install at fault? for people that don't know it, installing that package should add to the right clic menu of any image file options to change size, compress and some other useful actions thanks jdd -- https://dodin.org

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quit
by mao绵绵 21 Sep '24

21 Sep '24

发自我的 iPhone

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Nvidia: turing+ new open driver rpms versus?
by Michael Hamilton 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

I have a Turing card, so it's possible for me to switch from the "easy-way" to the new open driver. But I'm a little confused over the advantages and differences from the easy-way (or the hard-way for that matter). Is the new open driver in rpm-form in essence another "easy-way" option? Specifically, will automatically rebuild for kernel changes without a driver reinstall being necessary? The open driver rpms come from an opensuse repository, so does that mean that the newer 560 drivers might eventually be made an option - stepping around their unavailability via the old "easy-way"? If the new open driver rpms are installed, what is the OpenSUSE suggested way of obtaining the associated utilities, such as nvidia-settings? Do I specifically have to choose it, or will yast/zypper prefer the new open driver rpms for cards that support it? I think I read there might be some limitations with the new open driver - possibly it's better for wayland? Are there other questions I should be asking, but have overlooked? As a side note, I think the "hard-way" installer may choose the new open drivers if the card supports it - is that correct? If answers to the above are already written up somewhere, just point me to the link. Thanks, Michael

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Dell BIOS bombed OpenSuSE!
by Marc Chamberlin 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

I dunno why I am suddenly not able to send emails from my email server to this list, everything is bouncing back to me. So I am going to try from a different computer to see if that helps. Sorry if this turns into a duplicate post, not my intention! Hi, I have a Dell laptop that I had set up to dual boot OpenSuSE 15.5 and Windows 11. Recently, upon powering up my laptop, I got a notice saying the time had not been properly set up in the BIOS. So, for the first time, I figured out how to open up the BIOS settings, took a look at the time setting, and was puzzled to find it was OK. When I exited the BIOS setup the laptop then directly booted up the Windows 11 system. Powering off, then back on resulted in the same behavior, the GRUB menu that allowed me to select which system to boot up, no longer appears. Near as I can figure, something about bringing up the BIOS menu destroyed the Grub boot menu! Any ideas on what the heck is going on with Dell's Bios? I am trying to ask Dell this question, but so far no response. What is the best way for restoring GRUB and get back my ability to boot up OpenSuSE? Marc...

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buildservice - Why am I getting delete requests for my branched projects?
by David C. Rankin 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Devs, Since the Nvidia G05 drivers are not up to date, I branched and patched a community project to make sure that an updated driver for Tumbleweed was available. Now I'm receiving delete requests form some unknown "moderator" for the reason of saving space?? If the problem is the branched status, then how do I turn the branched project into a normal project under my account? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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firefox changed behavior "no video with supported mime-type"
by Simon Becherer 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, tumbleweed firefox 129.0.1 i know it was working about 1 to 2 years in past, some update has changed this. and yes, it could be that the file is not really correct at the server. i got this error also from other sources especially when i use different nitter instances. changing the nitter instance shows video's which has this error at other instances before. is there something i could configure at my computer/firefox that the mimetype will be set correct according to the ending of the filename and the video will be played? here a own movie where i am pretty sure it was working before. https://www.becherer.de/Homepage/Kloepper/cobot-schweissen.MOV it shows the error "no video with supported mime-type" off topic: yes, for the technicians here, the machine is not adjusted perfect, to many sparks. simoN -- www.becherer.de

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HP ProLiant G9 DL360 & SuSE 15.5 Video Problems
by Andrei Verovski 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi, I have HP ProLiant G9 DL360 with 16TB of storage which I would like to retrofit as video surveillance server. Server have only 1 problem - slow display of live video. Even moving window around is not smooth, video playback in youtube (in firefox) is choppy. It affects only video display, not recording. Built-in video card (lshw -C display) is Matrox MGA G200EH, driver mgag200 resolution 1400x1050, depth=32 glxinfo | grep render tells direct rendering = yes with GLX_MESA_***. I installed older SuSE 15.5 since newer kernel in 15.6 have Matrox drivers removed (please correct if I’m wrong here). I tried Gnome and Mate, Wayland is disabled. Is there any way to fix it apart from installing another vide card with help of DL360 Gen9 750685-001 775421-001 HP Expansion Slot Riser Board ? Thanks in advance for any help. Andrei

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Zypper history: summarise rpm changes
by Michael Hamilton 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

I have a python script that can summarise RPM change-logs for anything install by zypper in the past N days. The idea being to work around the limitation that the Tumbleweed release announcements only lists the DVD changes, but the release almost always contains more than that. I recently gave it a spring-clean for python3, and have now shared it as a gist in case it may be of use to others: https://gist.github.com/digitaltrails/094cd5a5d08670560c8bb199041321a6 Usage is as follows: Usage: zypphist.py [options] Report change log entries for recent zypper installs. Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -i ZYP_INSTALL_DAYS, --installed-since=ZYP_INSTALL_DAYS Include anything zypper installed up to the specified days ago(default 1). -c RPM_CHANGE_ENTRIES, --change-entries=RPM_CHANGE_ENTRIES For matched zypper installs, report a given number of dated RPM change-log entries (default 1). Example: sudo python3 zypphist.py --installed-since=3 Sample output for one package: ================================================== +Package: 2024-09-14 09:02:57 nvidia-utils-G06 ------------------------------ * Tue Aug 13 2024 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch(a)suse.com> - Update to 550.107.02 * Fixed a race condition involving modeset ownership which could lead to flip event timeout errors when enabling the 'fbdev' kernel module parameter in nvidia-drm. * Fixed a regression that caused nvidia-powerd to exit when nvidia-dbus.conf was not present in the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ directory. * Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption while handling ACPI events on some notebooks. * Fixed a bug that could cause external displays to become frozen until the next modeset when using PRIME Display Offloading with the NVIDIA dGPU acting as the display offload sink. The one limitation is that the script cannot work out how many rpm change log entries might apply to a release and defaults to one. Michael

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ShoutOUt to the devs! - Compiz + KDE3 + Tumbleweed - Simply Amazing
by David C. Rankin 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

All, Roughly 20 years ago (18 ish) compiz 6 or 7 came on the scene when KDE3 was reaching maturity and the combination was simply amazing. Then for years, due to versioning differences, python version changes, etc... it was more or less a broken mess. Having a bit of time today I put a bit of effort in resurrecting my favorite desktop combination from the X11/compiz repo using the 8.8 version -- and -- the magic is back. Still a few kinks to work out (seems to be a crash in scale addon), but on balance it works incredibly well! https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2fdde52b55c1 Even the emerald window decorations are there and work well. (I've probably got 100 custom emerald themes squirreled away somewhere) Seems that the settings tools port to python3 is mature, and the compositor works brilliantly. Fusion-icon works as well allowing switching between compiz and kwin and emerald and gtk decorators. (current gtk decorators - blah..) It's probably been 10 years since I've seen it all work together well -- and this is on Tumbleweed! I'll see what I can do to debug the scale crash. Great job devs! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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