openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3

English Install/Boot/Login
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Here’s the error message, noting that legacy Grub was originally installed in the root partition dev/sda5 or (hd0,4) of openSUSE 12.1:

grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,3) (hd0,4)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5” exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,3)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,4)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,3) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "… failed

Error 22: No such partition
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,4)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5” exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)”… 17 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running “install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,4)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst”… succeeded
Done.
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0,4) (hd0,4)
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage1” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/stage2” exists… yes
Checking if “/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5” exists… yes
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,4)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running “embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,4)”… failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install --force-lba --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,4) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst "… succeeded
Done.
grub> quit

Is this because I installed (Grub2) bootloader of 12.2 in its root partition dev/sda15 (hd0,14) instead of the MBR (dev/sda)?

I remember that I couldn’t boot Fedora 17 Beta RC3 (Grub2) until I re-installed it and placed (Grub2) bootloader in /dev/sda.

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This also worked for me and I noticed that zypper pulled in os-prober automagically when I installed grub2. The install from the live cd goes very fast on an SSD. I think it was less than 10 minutes before I rebooted to the final configuration.

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I installed using the DVD “Build 315” 64-bit. However, during the Grub 2 boot up (after the installation) I could see it saying Milestone 2. Check /etc/products.d/openSUSE.prod. The xml file contains the error.

Grub2 installed okay in the extended partition except that the default resolution was “640x480”. So I edited grub.cfg with vim and changed it to “1680x1050” resolution. No graphics yet for Grub2 and the kcm-grub2 module is missing.

The installer using the default kernel froze again when “searching for Linux Partitions”. I had to restart the installation and add “acpi=off” to the Boot Options.

Mesa was also not auto-checked for installation and was manually done.

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I installed a 32-bit openSUSE-12.2 M3 using the DVD build-0317 on my old sandbox PC, an Athlon-1100 w/2GB RAM and a legacy AGP nVidia FX5200 graphic card. I chose the LXDE desktop, and chose the legacy grub, instructing grub to install on the ‘root’ partition and NOT on the mbr. I already have 3 additional GNU/Linux (openSUSE) versions on this sandbox PC that I am testing, and because I did not want to mess up the boot of those, I decided to stick with the legacy grub. The active partition on this PC is an openSUSE-12.1 partition, and in its menu.lst I have an entry that will allow this 12.2 M3 install to boot.

I note that 12.2 M3 LXDE did install with the ‘nomodeset’ boot code (and the 1024x768 resolution) chosen. Compare this to openSUSE-12.2 M2 that did not install no matter what setting i tried. So that is a major improvement.

The installation initially went to the fbdev driver. Later I edited the 50-device.conf and chose the ‘nv’ driver (also at 1024x768 resolution).

Sound worked ok (although I confess I installed pulse audio, which is NOT installed by default in LXDE).

I noted a bug in “lxdm”, in that it is constantly consuming 98% of the CPU when nothing is happening, and when other apps are running it is still consuming a lot of CPU. Consequently, videos played poorly, compared to superior performance that I have experienced in the past with openSUSE and the LXDE desktop on this PC. I have read other GNU/Linux distro’s have recently (March/April-2012) noted problems here with lxdm, but in the case of those distributions it appears changing the ‘theme’ has helped … I played with different themes on 12.2 M3 but could not find a winning combination to reduce the CPU load. It was glued to 98%. That’s an absolute KILLER on an old PC.

I was not able to play videos with youtube and firefox. Even though flashplayer was installed, it did not work with firefox. Instead I would just obtain a black screen. So I installed Google Chrome and the youtube video played. … … Strange … … Possibly a problem with Firefox and flash ?

I’m thinking the lxdm high cpu load problem is sufficiently severe to warrant a bug report. If it is more than me impacted by this high CPU load, then I’m concerned it may make lxde unusable for most users. Note I have been using LXDE on this PC since LXDE was 1st available for openSUSE, and I have adopted the same installation approach this time as I have done in the past. I had no high CPU load in the past.

Some info on this PCs setup:


oldcpu@stonehenge01:~/Downloads> inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: stonehenge01 Kernel: 3.3.0-2-default i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (i586) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   Mobo: MSI model: MS-6380E version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 07.00T date: 04/02/01
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) cache: 256 KB flags: (sse) clocked at 1150.151 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] X.org: 1.10.4 driver: nv Resolution: 126x51 
Audio:     Card-1: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] driver: snd_ens1371 Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:11:95:91:76:f5
           Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too 
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:50:fc:5f:ba:6d
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 484.0GB (23.9% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3320620A 320.1GB 
           2: /dev/sdb Maxtor_6Y160P0 163.9GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 25G used: 4.9G (21%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 25G used: 4.9G (21%) fs: ext4 
           ID: /home size: 50G used: 1010M (3%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
           ID: swap-2 size: 2.85GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0C mobo: 51.5C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 4299 fan-2: 0 
Info:      Processes: 112 Uptime: 0:30 Memory: 363.9/2017.3MB Runlevel: ? Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

and from ‘lspi -nnk’ (selected output)


00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] [1106:3099]
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0000]
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-via
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] [1106:b099]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] [1274:5880] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128 [1274:2000]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_ens1371
00:07.0 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 61)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:07.1 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 61)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:07.2 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 63)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139]
	Kernel driver in use: 8139too
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: D-Link System Inc AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter (rev. B) [1186:3a13]
	Kernel driver in use: ath5k
00:11.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571]
	Kernel driver in use: pata_via
00:11.2 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 23)
	Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502 Mainboard [0925:1234]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:11.3 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 23)
	Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502 Mainboard [0925:1234]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 40)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:4720]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_via82xx
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] [10de:0322] (rev a1)
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I wrote Access Denied on the lxdm high cpu load problem.

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Hello,

Here’s my update. I booted the GNOME Live CD…


su -c "zypper install grub2"

os-prober automatically installed along with Grub2

Started installation. This time installed Grub2 in the common boot partition /dev/sda5 that I forgot about.

After reboot, 12.2 M3 boots fine. Booted into 12.1 >YAST >Bootloader > Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. Same error message as above.

Booted into 12.2 M3:


#grub
grub>find /boot/grub/menu.lst

Terminal: (hd0,4) ###custom/common boot partition dev/sda5
(hd0,6) ###root partition of 12.1

A ha! There are 2 bootloaders, which one is “DE BOSS”?


grub>root (hd0,4)
grub>setup (hd0)
grub>quit

Rebooted and booted into 12.1. Still see same error. Its Bootloader Installation tab shows:

bootloader= Grub
bootloader location:

boot from MBR (existing, when 12.1 was installed)
boot from root partition (existing, when 12.1 was installed)
custom boot partition=/dev/sda5 (new, when 12.2 M3 was installed)

I then changed 12.1’s Grub bootloader location to the following:

boot from MBR
boot from boot partition

Hit OK

Now everything works as before, i.e. legacy Grub of 12.1 is default bootloader, and every other OS’s including 12.2 M3 is chainloaded.

The boot stanza of 12.2 M3 in 12.1’s /boot/grub/menu.lst reads:


title openSUSE 12.2 M3 (dev/sda15) via chainloading
root (hd0,14)
kernel /boot/grub2/core.img

When I boot into 12.2 M3, YAST >Bootloader=GRUB2>Bootloader location=Custom boot partition dev/sda5

PROBLEM SOLVED!

:wink:

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Did 12.2 MS2 with legacy grub to 12.2 MS3 upgrade had simular grub issues as reported here and in other threads. Mucked about and got it up am happy again. Wish I had some details to add but I overwrote relevant files before I knew it was a common disaster.

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Good morning, i have upgraded openSUSE 12.2 M2 to openSUSE 12.2 M3 without any problems, using the default desktop a.k.a KDE. As far as the problems noticed i could count only 2: the sound events while using Pulseaudio are still not working but i know there is a workaround for that and of course there where something about Grub 2, because it still showed up the old menu entries from Milestone 2. Until 12.2 gets released i hope to see an Grub2 module for Yast in order to configure menu entries via GUI as well. I will be back with feedback from live images in another post.

Personally i will still use Grub under openSUSE 12.2.

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I installed 12.2.M3 on my test hardware (Laptop with Pentium M/Centrino an Radeon graphics) and faced two major problems:

  • X not running: This is a known problem and I “solved” it by using nomodeset at boot.
  • WLAN not working and kernel getting stuck for (almost always) 23 seconds while probing network hardware: This problem is seen in recent versions of Fedora and ArchLinux too and is (probably) related to udev, bad timing in loading kernel modules and the driver (ipw2200). I will investigate this further this weekend before I write a bug report.
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I just finished testing the live ISO images openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0318 and openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0318, 32 bits version. Both live images booted but KDE has crashed at first but i was able to boot it second time around. Starting applications like Firefox, Yast, System Settings (in Gnome) or Configure Desktop (in KDE) went well and i was able to adjust various settings. Navigating thru menus did not posed problems and as far as i can see all applications have icons next to their name. Tests where conducted inside Vbox OSE version 4.1.12.

Offtopic: Happy Easter to all of you, no matter if you are Orthodox or Catholic; enjoy this holiday. :slight_smile:

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Been running M3 and thought all was well - better than 12.1 in fact -
until I tried “switch user”. All that happened was that the screen-saver
started. No panel appeared for swapping to new user. Anyone else
getting this?

In addition to clean install via DVD, I updated to KDE 4.8.2 from KDE
factory.

–
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.2 M2 (64-bit); KDE 4.8.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

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On 04/14/2012 01:56 AM, hendwolt wrote:
>
> I installed 12.2.M3 on my test hardware (Laptop with Pentium M/Centrino
> an Radeon graphics) and faced two major problems:
>
> - X not running: This is a known problem and I “solved” it by using
> nomodeset at boot.
> - WLAN not working and kernel getting stuck for (almost always) 23
> seconds while probing network hardware: This problem is seen in recent
> versions of Fedora and ArchLinux too and is (probably) related to udev,
> bad timing in loading kernel modules and the driver (ipw2200). I will
> investigate this further this weekend before I write a bug report.

This is a well-known problem, and the short version is that it is “a kernel
problem”.

The new udev causes problems for drivers that load firmware with a synchronous
call. At that time in the boot process, the user-space components needed to read
the firmware file are not yet available. The ipw2200 has not yet been converted
to use asynchronous fw loading, even in kernel 3.4-rc2. For most drivers, the
conversion is very easy, but the fw load process for ipw2x00 is quite
complicated. An additional problem is that the ip2x00 drivers have not had a
maintainer for some time. Someone just assumed that position, but it is taking a
while to get familiar with the driver structure.

A general workaround would be to blacklist the offending driver, and add a
modprobe for it in /etc/init.d/boot.after. That will delay loading the driver
and the firmware until user space is up and running.

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Larry Finger wrote:

> On 04/12/2012 11:56 AM, oldcpu wrote:
>>
>> Based on the current 12.2 M3 iso directory on the web, it looks like
>> M3 will be build-0318 for liveCDs, and build-0317 for 32-bit
>> DVDs/and-32-bit-net-installs and build-0315 for 64-bit
>> DVDs/and-64-bit-net-installs
>
> I just installed the KDE Live CD x86_64, Build 0318 on a VirtualBox
> VM. By booting the Live system, opening a terminal, and issuing the
> command:
>
>


> su -c "zypper install grub2"
>

>
> before starting the installation, installation with GRUB2 worked.
>
> Happy testing.
Is there a way to do that if you cannot boot to the 12.2 MS2 system.
Somehow mine is corrupt. I know grub works because I can boot the 11.4
link fine.

Thanks.

Russ
openSUSE 12.1(3.1.9-1.4-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform Version
4.8.2 (4.8.2 “release 491”|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce
8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20)

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On 04/14/2012 01:02 PM, upscope wrote:
> Is there a way to do that if you cannot boot to the 12.2 MS2 system.
> Somehow mine is corrupt. I know grub works because I can boot the 11.4
> link fine.

Live CDs do not need to boot to any previous version. They are for install,
not update.

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I booted the 64-bit KDE liveCD of openSUSE-12.2 M3 (build-0318) on my Dell Studio 1537 laptop. This laptop has a P8400 CPU, 4GB RAM, and a Radeon HD3450 graphics. The liveCD booted ok to the 1440x900 nominal resolution of this laptop using the radeon opensource driver.


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series] [1002:95c4]
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:029f]
        Kernel driver in use: radeon

Desktop effects did not work as well in this 12.2 M3 as it does under 12.1 with radeon, … for example cube rotation does not work with 12.2 M3 radeon driver, but it did with 12.1 radeon driver. Thats not a worry for me - only a test result that I am noting.

Sound ‘just worked’. The Intel Wireless worked well as long as I accepted the kwallet insistence on keeping my password.


04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4235]
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1121]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

and some of the entries in dmesg for this successful wireless connection:


   49.177819] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d
   49.177822] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
   49.177904] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: pci_resource_len = 0x00002000
   49.177907] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: pci_resource_base = ffffc900110b4000
   49.177909] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: HW Revision ID = 0x0
   49.177993] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
   49.178892] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled
   49.178894] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled
   49.178896] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled
   49.178898] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TESTMODE disabled
   49.178900] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_P2P disabled
   49.178907] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 AGN, REV=0x24
   49.178966] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   49.201028] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x120, CALIB=0x4
   49.201030] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Device SKU: 0xF0
   49.201040] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
.........
   50.342201] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.83.5.1 build 33692
..........
   50.691167] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
.........
   78.549767] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   78.553265] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x2-0x0
   78.703768] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   78.706772] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x2-0x0
   78.750039] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
.........
   82.089986] NET: Registered protocol family 17
  248.814518] wlan0: authenticate with bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (try 1)
  248.817308] wlan0: authenticated
  248.819365] wlan0: associate with bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (try 1)
  248.822346] wlan0: RX AssocResp from bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=4)
  248.822350] wlan0: associated
  248.822354] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 1
  248.822357] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 2
  248.833616] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
  249.835946] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 3
  258.970028] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

I connected a USB-3.0 memory stick to the laptop’s USB-2.0 ports and it worked fine at USB-2.0 speeds.


 1087.552332] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
 1087.993831] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=162b
 1087.993841] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 1087.993848] usb 2-2: Product: DT HyperX 3.0
 1087.993853] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Kingston
 1087.993858] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 1C6F65C7CB68BBC08000001B
 1087.994842] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
 1088.996708] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DT HyperX 3.0    PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 1088.996949] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
 1088.997554] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 125108224 512-byte logical blocks: (64.0 GB/59.6 GiB)
 1088.998048] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
 1088.998052] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
 1088.998547] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 1089.288240]  sdb: sdb1
 1089.291064] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

and from ‘inxi -F’ (which I built in the liveCD RAM user space in order to run) :


linux@linux:~/Documents> inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: linux.site Kernel: 3.3.0-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.8.1 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Studio 1537 version: A09
           Mobo: Dell model: 0P132H version: A09 Bios: Dell version: A09 date: 05/27/2009
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8400 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series] 
           X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,radeonhd,vesa) Resolution: 184x52 
Audio:     Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV620 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3400 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 65535 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:21:70:85:8d:be
           Card-2: Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:16:ea:ed:80:76
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 314.1GB (0.6% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9250421ASG 250.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DT_HyperX_3.0 64.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 4.6G used: 2.6G (55%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 4.6G used: 2.6G (55%) fs: ext3 
           ID: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0C mobo: 44.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 148 Uptime: 0:32 Memory: 1334.7/3927.1MB Runlevel: 5 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

where ‘inxi --recommends’ noted:


Recommended X application: glxinfo (info: -G glx info)...................... Missing
........
Recommended application: hddtemp (info: -Dx show hdd temp).................. Missing

which are possibly liveCD space limitations as those packages are not necessary. Some might consider bloat.

I’ll try this 64-bit liveCD of M3 on a few other PCs today if I get the opportunity.

Other than firefox and a few other apps such as zypper, leafpad, rpmbuild, dolphin, bash (which were all successful), I did not get to test any applications with this liveCD boot.

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I booted the 64-bit KDE liveCD of openSUSE-12.2 M3 (build 0318) to my wife’s desktop PC, which is an ASUS P7H55-M mobtherboard with a Core i7 860 CPU, 8GB RAM and nVidia GT218 graphic hardware.


linux:/home/linux/Documents # lspci -nnk | grep vga -iA2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. EN210 SILENT [1043:8334]
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau

and the liveCD recognized my wife’s ancient Fujitsu-Siemens (FUS) TFT and the nouveau driver booted to the nominal maximum 1280x1024 resolution that this old TFT supports. From the Xorg.0.log file:


    65.142] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output VGA-1
    65.142] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: FUS  Model: 55b  Serial#: 2448
    65.142] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Year: 2004  Week: 48
    65.142] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID Version: 1.3
..........
   149.026] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "FUS", prod id 1371
   149.026] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync
   149.026] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh

Special desktop effects, when enabled, did not work with this 12.2 M3 liveCD nouveau driver implementation. It has worked in the past on a previous openSUSE version (12.1 ? ) …

My guess is that is related to these errors in the Xorg.0.log file:


    65.861] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
    65.861] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
    65.861] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
    65.861] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
    65.861] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
    65.861] (II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0

… I’m not a big special desktop effects user, so that is more just an observation (of a test) from me.

The wired Ethernet connection worked fine.

Sound worked, and I tested it by playing a video (with sound) from youtube: Keeper Restaurant Khao Lak - YouTube

I rebuilt in user space the ‘inxi -F’ from Packman packagers and installed it and ran it:


linux@linux:~/Documents> inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: linux.site Kernel: 3.3.0-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.8.1 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P7H55-M version: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends version: 1002 date: 08/09/2010
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 860 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1200.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz 3: 1200.00 MHz 4: 1200.00 MHz 5: 1200.00 MHz 6: 1867.00 MHz 7: 1200.00 MHz 8: 2801.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 172x47 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 20:cf:30:ac:00:0c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (-) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HDS72105 500.1GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ST3500630A 500.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 6.0G used: 2.5G (42%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 6.0G used: 2.5G (42%) fs: ext3 
           ID: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.5C mobo: 27.0C gpu: 36.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1188 sys-1: 1795 
Info:      Processes: 176 Uptime: 0:13 Memory: 1197.3/5944.8MB Runlevel: 5 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

‘inxi --recommends’ gave the same as my previous post, so no point in repeating that as it is not an issue/item of real note.

I plugged in a USB-3.0 memory stick into a USB-2.0 port, and it worked at USB-2.0 speeds. Similar entries to before on my laptop:


 1101.641434] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
 1102.111323] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=162b
 1102.111329] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 1102.111333] usb 1-1.1: Product: DT HyperX 3.0
 1102.111336] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Kingston
 1102.111339] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 1C6F65C7CB68BBC08000001B
 1102.111893] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
 1103.114190] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DT HyperX 3.0    PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 1103.114525] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
 1103.115279] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 125108224 512-byte logical blocks: (64.0 GB/59.6 GiB)
 1103.115876] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
 1103.115883] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
 1103.116461] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 1103.538188]  sdc: sdc1
 1103.540734] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

That was about the extent of this brief test, only trying apps such as firefox, dolphin, leafpad, rpmbuild, bash, zypper, yast software repositories, …

I hope to see if this liveCD boots on my wife’s Lenovo X220 next, and then possibly later on my main desktop PC, if if finishes the current encoding task it is busy doing.

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I booted the 64-bit KDE openSUSE-12.2 M3 (build 0318) liveCD to my wife’s Lenovo X220 netbook, which has a Core i5 2410M CPU, 4GB RAM, and Intel Integrated (Sandybridge) graphics.

The graphics booted nominally ok to the maxium 1366x768 graphics with the Intel i915 graphic driver. Info on this netbook’s graphic hardware:


linux:/home/linux/Documents # lspci -nnk | grep vga -iA2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21da]
        Kernel driver in use: i915

Again I noted special desktop effects (such as cube rotation) did not work. I’m thinking maybe a liveCD limitation with similar entries as my above tests:


    93.708] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
    93.708] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
    93.708] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
    93.708] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
    93.708] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
    93.708] (II) GLX: no usable GL providers found for screen 0

The Xorg.0.log had this for my wife’s netbook’s screen:


    92.843] (II) intel(0): EDID for output LVDS1
    92.843] (II) intel(0): Manufacturer: LGD  Model: 2d8  Serial#: 0
    92.843] (II) intel(0): Year: 2010  Week: 0
    92.843] (II) intel(0): EDID Version: 1.3
....
   206.037] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LGD", prod id 728

I don’t know enough to say whether that is right or wrong, but the screen looks superb, so I assume all is well.

I connected the wireless to our home wireless WLAN, being careful use kwallet (and not try to avoid its use) and wireless functioned fine. Detail on the Lenovo’s wireless hardware:


03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [8086:0085] (rev 34)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN [8086:1311]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

and the entries in the dmesg corresponding to this successful wireless use:


   56.875964] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:d
   56.875967] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
   56.876100] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: pci_resource_len = 0x00002000
   56.876103] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: pci_resource_base = ffffc900050ac000
   56.876105] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: HW Revision ID = 0x34
   56.876294] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
   56.876383] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled
   56.876385] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled
   56.876387] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled
   56.876389] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TESTMODE disabled
   56.876390] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_P2P disabled
   56.876420] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0
   56.876576] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   56.886301] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x715, CALIB=0x6
   56.886303] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0x1F0
   56.886304] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0x3, Valid Rx ant: 0x3
   56.886317] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
...
   57.727531] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.168.5.3 build 42301
...
   58.250597] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
...
   87.844323] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
   87.846659] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   87.846866] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
   88.129218] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
   88.129466] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
   88.245716] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
   90.449090] NET: Registered protocol family 17
  934.778658] wlan0: authenticate with bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (try 1)
  934.781999] wlan0: authenticated
  934.782442] wlan0: associate with bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (try 1)
  934.795140] wlan0: RX AssocResp from bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=5)
  934.795148] wlan0: associated
  934.795155] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 1
  934.795159] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 2
  934.802972] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
  935.803898] wlan0: moving STA bc:05:43:5f:0e:cd to state 3

The uvcvideo webcam driver was loaded according to dmesg:


   57.253645] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated Camera (04f2:b217)
   57.255177] input: Integrated Camera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.6/1-1.6:1.0/input/input10
   57.255235] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
   57.255238] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

Since this laptop has lots of RAM, using zypper I installed the packmann packaged (for factory) ‘wxcam’ and successfully tested the webcam.

Sound ‘just worked’ , and I tested successfully firefox playing back a youtube video with music.

and finally from ‘inxi’ which I rebuilt from packman rpm spec file and installed:


Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: linux.site Kernel: 3.3.0-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.8.1 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   System: LENOVO (portable) product: 4286CTO version: ThinkPad X220
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 4286CTO Bios: LENOVO version: 8DET50WW (1.20 ) date: 07/07/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-2410M CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 2301.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 184x30 
Audio:     Card: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e 
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 4294967295 Mbps duplex: full mac: f0:de:f1:7e:f4:97
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: a0:88:b4:d3:3f:38
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (-) 1: /dev/sda HITACHI_HTS54322 250.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 4.6G used: 2.5G (55%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 4.6G used: 2.5G (55%) fs: ext3 
           ID: swap-1 size: 2.16GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2924 
Info:      Processes: 166 Uptime: 0:33 Memory: 1289.1/3846.9MB Runlevel: 5 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

That was about the extent of my testing. I did not test many apps, other than dolphin, firefox, bash/konsole, leafpad (which I custom installed), pavucontrol (also custom installed), inxi (also custom installed), some YaST functionality …

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I removed from the legacy /boot/grub/menu.lst file the ‘nomodeset’ and ‘video=1024x768’ that the openSUSE installer had put in that file (likely because I had installed with those settings) and with YaST I changed the NO_INITRD_KMS back to NO and removed the blacklisting of the nouveau driver that I had placed in the /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf file. Then I rebooted.

Much to my pleasant surprise, the ‘nouveau’ driver booted ok to a 1440x900 resolution, which is significantly superior to the 1024x768 that I had with the ‘nv’ and also ‘fbdev’ drivers, but not quite up to the maximum 1600x1200 that this FX5200 is capable of (the monitor can go up to 1920x1200).

Even with the superior nouveau driver performance, the LXDE video performance is still being crippled by ‘lxdm’ consuming anywhere from 50% to 98% of the CPU. If an upstream bug, it is an ugly one and it makes lxde unusable in comparison to KDE. ie kde likely now performs faster on M3 than lxde on this PC with this bug. Again, bug report that I raised is here:

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I booted Milestone3 64-bit KDE liveCD to the last PC in our apartment, which I had not yet tested, which is my ‘main’ PC, a 3-year-old Aus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 920 CPU, 6GB of RAM, and a nVidia GTX260 graphic card.

The PC booted ok to the nouveau video driver to the 1900x1200 resolution with a nice looking display. Hardware according to ‘lspci -nnk’ :


linux:/home/linux/Documents # lspci -nnk | grep vga -iA2
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] [10de:05e2] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:82cf]
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau

My Samsung monitor, which has a DVI connection via a ‘dvi-capable’ KVM switch was detected (from Xorg.0.log file):


    61.794] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-I-1
    61.794] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: SAM  Model: 3e7  Serial#: 1415000630
    61.794] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Year: 2008  Week: 31
    61.794] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID Version: 1.3
...
    61.794] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Monitor name: SyncMaster
...
    61.885] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-I-2
...
   147.081] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "SAM", prod id 999

Desktop effects such as cube rotation could not be enabled - and there were similar error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file as per my previous tests of M3 on different pcs. Again, not an issue for me with nouveau driver on a liveCD.

My Logitech C910 webcam (a uvc compatible webcam) was detected and the uvcvideo webcam driver loaded:


   35.091975] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0821)
   35.104723] input: UVC Camera (046d:0821) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.2/input/input5
   35.104835] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
   35.104837] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

I installed wxcam from the packman packager factory repos and the webcam worked nicely with the uvcvideo webcam driver.

Sound ‘just worked’ with the motheboard sound being configured as sound device (card) 0, and the USB webcam’s mic as card-1. I played back a youtube music video with firefox successfully to confirm sound/firefox video playback (and Internet access streaming).

I plugged my USB-3.0 memory stick into a USB-2.0 port, and it worked, at USB-2.0 speeds. This was the dmesg entry:


 1744.245210] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
 1744.686166] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=162b
 1744.686171] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 1744.686174] usb 1-3: Product: DT HyperX 3.0
 1744.686176] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Kingston
 1744.686178] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 1C6F65C7CB68BBC08000001B
 1744.686822] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-3:1.0
 1745.689396] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DT HyperX 3.0    PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 1745.689602] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
 1745.690265] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 125108224 512-byte logical blocks: (64.0 GB/59.6 GiB)
 1745.690835] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
 1745.690841] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
 1745.691333] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 1746.030603]  sdb: sdb1
 1746.033368] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

I then unumounted the memory stick and plugged the same into a USB-3.0 PCI-e interface card in the back of my PC. This card has never yielded me USB-3.0 speeds in ANY operating system, so after mounting a partition off of my PCs hard drive, and copying a 2.5 GB file to the USB-3.0 memory stick, I was not suprised to see only fast USB-2.0 speeds ( ~ 32 MiB/sec). Again, from dmesg, this for the USB-3.0:


 1825.843130] sdb: detected capacity change from 64055410688 to 0
 1832.398586] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
 1907.418289] usb 10-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
 1907.432816] usb 10-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=162b
 1907.432820] usb 10-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 1907.432823] usb 10-1: Product: DT HyperX 3.0
 1907.432825] usb 10-1: Manufacturer: Kingston
 1907.432828] usb 10-1: SerialNumber: 1C6F65C7CB68BBC08000001B
 1907.433755] scsi11 : usb-storage 10-1:1.0
 1908.434234] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DT HyperX 3.0    PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 1908.434469] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
 1908.434823] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 125108224 512-byte logical blocks: (64.0 GB/59.6 GiB)
 1908.435071] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
 1908.435076] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
 1908.435259] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 1908.741719]  sdb: sdb1
 1908.743190] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

and finally some configuration information from this pc from ‘inxi’ (where again using rpmbuild I custom rebuilt from the packman rpm source file):


linux@linux:~/Documents> inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: linux.site Kernel: 3.3.0-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.8.1 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T DELUXE V2 version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 1108 date: 09/21/2010
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 920 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1600.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 2668.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 213x62 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: Logitech HD Webcam C910 driver: USB Audio
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 
           IF: eth1 state: down speed: 65535 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:38
           Card-2: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:39
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1564.4GB (73.4% used) 1: /dev/sda ST31500341AS 1500.3GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DT_HyperX_3.0 64.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 6.0G used: 2.6G (42%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 6.0G used: 2.6G (42%) fs: ext3 
           ID: swap-1 size: 6.82GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.5C mobo: 52.0C gpu: 0.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2057 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 0 sys-3: 0 
Info:      Processes: 179 Uptime: 0:42 Memory: 1889.4/5971.9MB Runlevel: 5 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

Applications that I had run included bash, top, dolphin, pavucontrol (custom install), leafpad (custom install), inxi (custom build/install), some YaST functionality, firefox …

I decided to stop testing here. I have a spare partition on this PC, and I think I will install 12.2 M3 on this partition (being careful to only use the legacy grub) and when that is complete I will report later on that.

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I installed openSUSE-12.2 M3 from the 64-bit DVD on this Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard which has a 1.5 TB hard drive, an Intel Core i7-920 CPU, 6GB of RAM and a nvidia GTX260 graphic card. I had previously successfully booted to the 64-bit KDE openSUSE-12.2 M3 liveCD.

The nominal install failed.

It constantly hung at “Search for Linux Partitions” in the openSUSE installer (see image).
http://thumbnails72.imagebam.com/18509/af721e185080251.jpg](ImageBam)
[click on image for larger view]

I noted this on one of the background terminal pages:
http://thumbnails71.imagebam.com/18509/dd5857185080260.jpg](ImageBam)
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which states:


end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

This PC has no floppy device.

with a more detailed larger view here:
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I hit a hard reset on the PC to restart. This is repeatable, as I tried it a few times, and even burned another DVD to confirm. I also confirmed md5sums, conducted the mediacheck, burned at a lower speed … etc… Now openSUSE nominally always installs on this PC. I typically never need to install via SafeSettings.

But … I then tried a SafeSettings install which worked. But since safe settings was selected, it booted to the FBDEV driver at a lower resolution than nominal.

During the safe settings install I chose the legacy grub boot loader. Noted this M3 liveCD was mislabeled as M2. I triple checked to ensure I had the correct iso file downloaded, CD burned and booted from. There is a labeling mistake here by SuSE-GmbH (or the associated packager).

After the Safesettings install was complete, I went into YaST and edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst to read M3 instead of M2. I noted a grub2 entry in the menu.lst even thou I chose the legacy grub. That’s a bit misleading IMHO for a user. I did not try to boot from that grub2 selection in the legacy grub menu.lst. I also removed all of the ‘safesettings’ entries out of the menu.lst where those were included in the nominal boot.

I then rebooted and the openSUSE-12.2 M3 booted ok to the nouveau graphic driver.

Sound: I then tested sound, which worked.

Webcam: The webcam worked (Logitech C910 using uvcvideo driver).

Wired access to Internet: I had Internet access via a wired connection to our home LAN.

I plugged in a Canon Ixus 800IS digital camera which works superbly with Digikam in every openSUSE version (since 10.x) that I have used with this camera. Well, there was no KDE hot plug detection popup. By running digikam I was able to detect the camera and download pictures. But the KDE hot plug auto detection of this camera is not working in 12.2 M3. I note that the camera is detected when I check the dmesg (showing a couple of my attempts):


 1282.638002] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
 1282.775509] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=3119
 1282.775513] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 1282.775517] usb 1-3: Product: Canon Digital Camera
 1282.775519] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Canon Inc.
 1291.236023] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 7
 3011.880283] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
 3012.017780] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=3119
 3012.017784] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 3012.017787] usb 1-3: Product: Canon Digital Camera
 3012.017790] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

So I suspect a KDE problem in interfacing to this ?

Printing worked: I setup our Network printer (an HP Photsmart C309a All-In-One-Premium) using YaST. While it was seen by YaST, I still elected to run hp-setup as by doing so I have found it makes it quicker for me to setup the Network scanning. I chose the manual selection in this and configured the Network printer without a problem.

Scanning Worked: I then setup the Network scan function in this same HP Photosmart C309a All-In-One-Premium. I installed xsane and performed a successful test network scan.

USB stick Worked: I plugged in a USB-3.0 stick into a USB-2.0 slot, and it worked ok.

I note from the ‘inxi -F’


oldcpu@corei7-920:~> inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: corei7-920 Kernel: 3.3.0-2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop KDE 4.8.1 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 (x86_64) **VERSION = 12.2** CODENAME = Mantis
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T DELUXE V2 version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 1108 date: 09/21/2010
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 920 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2672.822 MHz 2: 2672.822 MHz 3: 2672.822 MHz 4: 2672.822 MHz 5: 2672.822 MHz 6: 2672.822 MHz 7: 2672.822 MHz 8: 2672.822 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 189x54 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: Logitech HD Webcam C910 driver: USB Audio
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 
           IF: eth1 state: down speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:38
           Card-2: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:39
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (2.0% used) 1: /dev/sda ST31500341AS 1500.3GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 15G used: 5.5G (40%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 15G used: 5.5G (40%) fs: ext4 
           ID: /home size: 35G used: 921M (3%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 6.82GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: 50.0C gpu: 0.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2008 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 0 sys-3: 0 
Info:      Processes: 198 Uptime: 0:57 Memory: 1020.0/5971.9MB Runlevel: 5 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

Note this IS openSUSE-12.2 M3 build 0315 DVD. So I think there is a labeling problem and its not me installing from the wrong DVD (I emphasize that because I HAVE made such a mistake in the past).

I stopped testing here …

… my main observation is that there may be something wrong with either the Partitioning detection application, or the YaST installer. I may need to write a bug report on this.