I Updated OpenSuse 11.2 and some hardware stop work!

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#1

I recently install OpenSuse 11.2, the video card was working well (ATI RADEON HD 3200), and y have the Wifi almoust working (broadcom). I updated the OS and ask to reboot. After the reboot, the screen looked like “fluidless” (for example navigating on internet, when i moved the scrollbar all seems slow), and also i dosn’t have the option to get Wifi.

i execute iwconfig:

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

I think that after the update, some controllers stop working, i need to activate them again.

Any idea, or help??

Thanks a lot.

#2

Some more info will get you the help you need. The following command will help assist here

/sbin/lspci -nnk

Some references to get your graphics driver sorted

openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums

Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

#3

thanks for the rapid answer, here is my paste of /sbin/lspci -nnk. One observation, i checked all the packages of the wifi and the video and all seems to be normal, this is really strange. Like i said before, all that was working normally but after the update all went wrong.


linux-w5m2:~ # /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]                                                                                
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:9602]              
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604]                                                             
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver                                      
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]                                                             
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver                                      
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]                                                             
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver                                      
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3) [1022:9607]                                                             
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver                                      
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]                                                              
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ahci                                                 
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]                                                                      
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd                                             
00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]                                                                            
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd                                             
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]                                                                       
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd                                             
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]                                                                      
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd                                             
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]                                                                            
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd                                             
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]                                                                       
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd                                             
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3a)                                                                                
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus                                          
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller [1002:439c]                                                                             
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]                      
        Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1300] (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1301]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1302]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1303]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1304]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]
01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller [1002:960f]
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller [1002:960f]
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [103c:137d]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
0a:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]
        Kernel driver in use: r8169

sorry for the big paste :P.

Thanks a lot.

#4

Read this for your wireless network device:

HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)/Broadcom BCM43xx - openSUSE

Essentially, you will need to ensure that you have the firmware installed. Make sure you have the Packman repo enabled as required.

The links posted earlier should help you with your graphics device. The relevant lspci output for it is

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30fb]

I would start a new thread if you need further help with that.

Like i said before, all that was working normally but after the update all went wrong.

I hope you did a clean install. Updates over the top of existing installations can cause all kinds of issues for linux novices.

#5

An update that’s being pushed to openSUSE 11.2 disable DRI acceleration totally in radeonhd driver on ATI r600 cards (which include HD 3200) to prevent some potential lockups.

Your options are either use the open source radeon driver or the proprietary fglrx driver.

(Note: radeonhd and radeon are different drivers.)

#6

It might also help if you tell us what you updated. Was it the kernel ?

You can find out what updates you installed by typing:

rpm -qa --last

or redirect that to a text file:

rpm -qa --last > myrpmlist.txt

and open up ‘myrpmlist.txt’ with a text editor. Go to the date where you did the updates and the problem occurred. What did you update?

You could also tell us what graphic driver you are using now? vesa ? radeonhd ? You can find that out by looking inside /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look to see what driver. For example if you see
(==) FBDEV(0):
you are using FBDEV driver.

If you see:
(==) VESA(0):
you are using VESA driver.

If you see
(==) RADEON(0):
you are using RADEON driver

If you see
(==) RADEONHD(0):
you are using RADEONHD driver.

As already noted to you, there is a practical theory guide on this in this thread here: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums

If you are looking for help in your wireless, you may be better served with an appropriate title and a new thread in a more precise forum area here: Wireless - openSUSE Forums . Maybe in that subforum area start a new thread with title: " BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] not functioning " and post the salient wireless symptom details in your post.

#7

locazopro,
After every kernel update, you need to reinstall third-party drivers. Because kernel was changed and location of the kernel’s modules also have been changed after update.
About broadcom wireless: download and intstall broadcom-wl-.rpm and broadcom-wl-kmp-(default|desktop)-.rpm from Packman repository. Package broadcom-wl-kmp depends of your kernel version (desktop or default). Please, check your kernel version before, with command: uname -a
About video: if you did use official driver from amd - best way to uninstall driver, and then install driver again.