[opensuse] Problems after 11.4 install
Hi, I did a clean 11.4 install on the weekend as my 11.3 install was just to borked, but have been plagued by stability problems ever since. The Nouveau drivers are working brilliantly for 2D and 3D graphics with KDE whizzing along at full speed with no visual glitches. The problem appears to comes with the power management, where not only does suspend not work, but I get random crashes when the screen saving power management kicks in. Sometimes when the screen saver starts it just kills X and kicks me out to KDM, other times the screen powers down and refuses to power back on forcing me to kill the machine as it dowsn't respond to keyboard or mouse either. Before I revert to the NVidia drivers (and the different problems that brings) are there any suggestions of possible fixes? The next 2 minor niggles are actually carry-overs from 11.3 that I had hoped would resolve themselves in 11.4 but they're still present. The first is if I use Yast to set-up an NFS mount in fstab then on start-up openSuse tries to connect to the NFS mount _before_ the network is started. Only after 4-5 minutes does mount.nfs timeout and shortly after NetworkManager starts up to make the connection. I find it hard to believe this is the correct behaviour and that no-one else seems to have hit this? The second is X incorrectly detecting my Macbook keyboard. The kernel correctly detects the keymap as mac-uk and uses that whenever working in the console (i.e. ctrl-alt-f1), but once X/KDE starts it uses a normal UK keyboard. If I then go into Yast and run "System Keyboard Layout" X miraculously and instantly starts using the correct keymap without my even hitting Accept or Cancel. Before I go and force KDE to the right keymap, any suggestions on how to get X to do what it should? TIA! John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 03/17/2011 06:52 PM, John Layt wrote:
The first is if I use Yast to set-up an NFS mount in fstab then on start-up openSuse tries to connect to the NFS mount _before_ the network is started. Only after 4-5 minutes does mount.nfs timeout and shortly after NetworkManager starts up to make the connection. I find it hard to believe this is the correct behaviour and that no-one else seems to have hit this?
That's weird, it shouldn't happend. AFAIK, NFS volumes are supposed to be mounted later by the system. Anyway, a surefire workaround would be to use automount. This mounts them when they are accessed and unmounts them automatically after a while. This is an example configuration: 0. become root su - 1. Make a directory mkdir /mnt/automount 2. Add this to /etc/auto.master /mnt/automount /etc/auto.nfs 3. Create /etc/auto.nfs nfs -fstype=nfs server:/directory/that/you/export 4. start autofs /etc/init.d/autofs start 5. enable autofs to start at boot chkconfig --add autofs 6. see if it works ls /mnt/automount/nfs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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