upgraded my system from the Milestone 2 oss and non-oss repo’s. yesterday.
Milestone 2 is on seperate disk from my 11.1 installation. Kde would not
upgrade from there because of missing Oxygen dependency. Upgraded KDE from
Factory. After upgrade the following issues exist.
Amarok2 has no sound. Sound tests OK from YaST and configure desktop.
Going to test other multimedia apps today. Also need to drop back to Packman
version. Sound works on my 11.1 installation.
Vboxdrv will not run setup. (VirtualBox-2.2.4_47978_openSUSE111-1)
Compile failure. works OK on 11.1. and was working on Milestone 2 before
yesterdays upgrade. Is there a way to compile this for the latest kernel?
3 YaST → Software → Repositories would not add new repository from GUI.
Zypper added the repository OK. Need to check again and make sure there was
no typo’s in repository name in YaST.
So far everything else appears to work OK. Will test more later today.
Just what I was waiting for. Thanks for starting this thread! Anywho, I’ve only been having trouble with sound, wireless, and desktop effects.
openSUSE still can’t get my wireless card right, BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (1390 WLAN Mini-card). I had to uninstall b43-fwcutter and install the b43 and b43-legacy rpm’s I’ve saved from my 11.1 installation. I saved them in my fileden account so if anyone else has this card here’s the b43-4.150.10.5-2.pm.1.noarch.rpm driver and here’s the b43legacy-3.130.20.0-2.pm.1.noarch.rpm driver.
As for sound, removing some pulse audio packages did the trick there.
And finally, I’ve been stumped with the desktop effects problem. As I’ve posted here KDE4.3 Beta 2 - Just Updated - How is yours? - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums, Whenever I enable kwin’s desktop effects, I’m unable to shutdown or restart without having the login screen come up first. I then have to shutdown or restart from there as well.
I then noticed that it only happens with kwin’s effects enabled. I installed compiz-fusion and it works great with heavy desktop effects and all. I can still shutdown and restart without being kicked back to the login screen.
One last curious thing is when I enable heavy effects with kwin and choose apply, I’ll get a black screen then get kicked back to the login screen. I’ll then be able to login and the effects will work but I can’t shutdown or restart normally. It happens whether I have heavy desktop effects or just simple effects enabled in kwin.
That’s all I’ve got so far. Still testing it out as I’m using this as my main production machine (since it’s the summer and I back everything up it doesn’t matter. 11.2 will be near done or out by the time I’m back in college).
Take Care,
Ian
Edit: This is happening with my laptop (details in signature). I’ve also seen the same exact behavior on a test desktop machine at work with a crappy Intel card as well. Not sure where to check for problems, such as log files and whatnot. If anyone could point me in the right direction so I can help find the cause of the problem that’d be great.
Oh and also, when I have desktop effects on I find that I have no tty interfaces after trying to shutdown, where it kicks me back to the login screen. When I hit ctrl+alt+f1 I just get a black screen with a frozen cursor. I’ve tried with ctrl+alt+f1-11 (with 7 being the gui). So I can’t really even see if anything goes wrong there, unless I can get a hold of some log file, I’m not sure where to look though, any help would be appreciated as to where to start looking.
Hi Russ,
My amorok didn’t work until I installed libxine1 and -codecs from packman. Commercial DVD needed libdvdcss from videolan as usual, disabling repo after install.
Yast soundtest apparently not reliable (buggy reputation says oldcpu). You can run the checks recommended here from Konsole. They go ok on 11.2 and give you an idea of what other packages you may need, e.g. say you need to switch phonon backend between xine and gstreamer (KDE4 Settings>Multimedia) to improve internet streaming (you may not need to).
I have this weird thing happening on both my machines:
Sometimes, and sometimes not for days, a started application slowly “folds up”, i.e. it’s like someone is picking it’s window by the bottom edges, then pulls them up. In fact, if it was supposed to be a desktop effect, it wouldn’t look bad. The behaviour can be stopped, by picking the window and trying to move it. It then restores to it’s normal size and behaviour, even maximized windows. Happens to KDE- and other apps, like Opera.
Russ, I just installed Sun VirtualBox 2.2.4 (PUEL) on 11.2 Milestone2. I had to install following packages before kernel module compiled ok:
(assumes you have make package already installed)
>
> upscope;1999917 Wrote:
>> upgraded my system from the Milestone 2 oss and non-oss repo’s.
>> yesterday.
>> Milestone 2 is on seperate disk from my 11.1 installation. Kde would
>> not
>> upgrade from there because of missing Oxygen dependency. Upgraded KDE
>> from
>> Factory. After upgrade the following issues exist.
>>
>> 1. Amarok2 has no sound. Sound tests OK from YaST and configure
>> desktop.
>> Going to test other multimedia apps today. Also need to drop back to
>> Packman
>> version. Sound works on my 11.1 installation.
>> …
>>
> Hi Russ,
> My amorok didn’t work until I installed libxine1 and -codecs from
> packman. Commercial DVD needed libdvdcss from videolan as usual,
> disabling repo after install.
I got Amarok working now, it was the Kmix was muted and the sound setting in
YaST were at the bottom of scale. I did have the packman libxine1 stuff in
stalled. I sure hope they fix the muting soon.
> Yast soundtest apparently not reliable (buggy reputation says oldcpu).
> You can run the checks ‘recommended here’ (http://tinyurl.com/5v29xs)
> from Konsole. They go ok on 11.2 and give you an idea of what other
> packages you may need, e.g. say you need to switch phonon backend
> between xine and gstreamer (KDE4 Settings>Multimedia) to improve
> internet streaming (you may not need to).
I had it set on Xine yesterday when I got it working. Will run the checks
you mention when I switch over to 11.2 later today.
>
> upscope;1999917 Wrote:
>> …2. Vboxdrv will not run setup.
>> (VirtualBox-.2.4_47978_openSUSE111-1)
>> Compile failure. works OK on 11.1. and was working on Milestone 2
>> before
>> yesterdays upgrade. Is there a way to compile this for the latest
>> kernel?
> Russ, I just installed Sun VirtualBox 2.2.4 (PUEL) on 11.2 Milestone2.
> I had to install following packages before kernel module compiled ok:
> (assumes you have -make- package already installed)
>
> -kernel-source-
> -kernel-syms-
> -gcc-
> -xalan-c-
> -xerces-c -
>
> Hope that helps, if you haven’t sorted it yet.
>
I know I have the kernel-source, Kernel-syms, make and gcc installed. I need
to check the other two (xalan-c and xerces-c).
I also noticed the kernel headers (not installed) are for 2.6.29 instead of
30. I installed latest kernel yesterday but made no difference, from
Factory. Should I still use Factory or switch back to the repos the 11.2 DVD
setup? I only have oss, non-oss (Factory) and packman enabled.
BTW about your sound probs, if amarok works I wouldn’t switch the backend to gstreamer as I mentioned. I think amarok stopped working after I tried it. I tried it because I have no sound on internet streaming, but that may be the latest beta FF 3.5, or the mess that is 11.2 Milestone2+ sound. I also have KMix mute and the lowered sound found in Yast>Hardware.
I keep Factory Oss and Non-Oss enabled with autorefresh disabled. I refresh manually when/if I choose to. You can never be sure what state those factory repos are in, between milestones. I did update after Milestone 2, but KDE got in a mess and I had to recover it by using the separate Factory:KDE4 repo to get to KDE4.3beta2.
Since I updated Factory Oss after Milestone2, I have a later kernel-source than you i.e. 2.6.30-6.1 which matches my kernel-pae version exactly. You could individually update the necessary packages after refreshing the Factory Oss. No guarantee they will be same as mine.
I can’t comment on the repos you got with your download of Milestone2, as I upgraded from Milestone1 to 2 using Factory Oss and Non-Oss.
There is a further complication that I haven’t studied carefully. The Factory repos are being reorganized this week, so there may be downtime, may be no thursday update, and structured differently afterwards.
>
> upscope;2000890 Wrote:
>> …I also noticed the kernel headers (not installed) are for 2.6.29
>> instead of30. I installed latest kernel yesterday but made no
>> difference, from
>> Factory. Should I still use Factory or switch back to the repos the
>> 11.2 DVD
>> setup? I only have oss, non-oss (Factory) and packman enabled…
> I disable packman immediately after using it.
>
> BTW about your sound probs, if amarok works I wouldn’t switch the
> backend to gstreamer as I mentioned. I think amarok stopped working
> after I tried it. I tried it because I have no sound on internet
> streaming, but that may be the latest beta FF 3.5, or the mess that is
> 11.2 Milestone2+ sound. I also have KMix mute and the lowered sound
> found in Yast>Hardware.
>
> I keep Factory Oss and Non-Oss enabled with autorefresh disabled. I
> refresh manually when/if I choose to. You can never be sure what state
> those factory repos are in, between milestones. I did update after
> Milestone 2, but KDE got in a mess and I had to recover it by using the
> separate Factory:KDE4 repo to get to KDE4.3beta2.
>
> Since I updated Factory Oss after Milestone2, I have a later
> kernel-source than you i.e. 2.6.30-6.1 which matches my kernel-pae
> version exactly. You could individually update the necessary packages
> after refreshing the Factory Oss. No guarantee they will be same as
> mine.
>
> I can’t comment on the repos you got with your download of Milestone2,
> as I upgraded from Milestone1 to 2 using Factory Oss and Non-Oss.
>
> There is a further complication that I haven’t studied carefully. The
> Factory repos are being reorganized this week, so there may be downtime,
> may be no thursday update, and structured differently afterwards.
>
>
I got the same KDE4.3 mess. Worked thru it I think. I’ll take your advise on
the autorefresh and packman.
>
> upscope;1999917 Wrote:
>> …2. Vboxdrv will not run setup.
>> (VirtualBox-.2.4_47978_openSUSE111-1)
>> Compile failure. works OK on 11.1. and was working on Milestone 2
>> before
>> yesterdays upgrade. Is there a way to compile this for the latest
>> kernel?
> Russ, I just installed Sun VirtualBox 2.2.4 (PUEL) on 11.2 Milestone2.
> I had to install following packages before kernel module compiled ok:
> (assumes you have -make- package already installed)
>
> -kernel-source-
> -kernel-syms-
> -gcc-
> -xalan-c-
> -xerces-c -
>
> Hope that helps, if you haven’t sorted it yet.
>
I checked my 11.2 install. I have all the above mentioned rpms installed.
Vboxdrv compile still fails. Did you use the 11.1 version from Sun or is
there a later version for the 2.6.30 kernel somewhere? I uninstalled Vbox
completely yesterday, will reinstall today and try again. Also I’ll follow
up with the install log.
Everything’s fine here concerning VBox. You should install the ‘Linux Kernel Development’ PATTERN and see if that pulls in some more. It’s going wrong at compiling the kernel module. It does compile OK on other machines, so you must be missing something.
Knurpht, when I installed kernel-syms it pulled in the necessary devel packages for each of the kernel types (IIRC four in total) as dependencies. I didn’t need to install any PATTERN. Why “should” if not developing kernels?
>
> upscope;2001338 Wrote:
>> I checked my 11.2 install. I have all the above mentioned rpms
>> installed. Vboxdrv compile still fails. Did you use the 11.1 version
>> from Sun or is there a later version for the 2.6.30 kernel somewhere? I
>> uninstalled Vbox completely yesterday, will reinstall today and try
>> again. Also I’ll follow up with the install log.
> I used the 11.1 (32bit) download from Sun, but I notice you are 64bit
> from your signature. Now you wouldn’t expect an 11.2 package would
> you(?) :).
>
This is russbucket:
first let me apologize, I sent the response and it must be setup with the
new Id I plan to convert to. I have not done that yet. It appears someone
has hijacked my Old IDs and is send a lot of spam mail with my email address
and a bunch of different names.
No, but I used the same 11.1 package that I use on my production. I have the
kernel symbols, etc installed also.
>
> Russ, Sorry to hear about your email troubles, it seems to be widespred
> problem these days.
>
> Did you manage to get a more recent -kernel-source- to match
> 2.6.30-6.1?
>
>
I think so but I’ve been working an openoffice problem I realy need to have
fixed by noon tomorrow. I get back to this and check kernel source tommorrow
afternoon.
