Long-time Linux user and former OS user that has returned.
I did a fresh install of the Tumbleweed x64 DVD image (Snapshot 20191124 from yesterday) via a flash card with a USB adapter (verified correctly after writing to card) and the install went without issue (the guided setup for the partitioner was great! I easily disabled use of a swap partition since I have so much RAM and it did the rest for me). I did do a “custom install” going through all the repos available before installing and disabling/locking some patterns and had to go back through a few times and make sure I didn’t miss any critical or needed packages, perhaps I missed some and it’s causing me headaches now. I’m a KDE/Plasma user BTW.
However, post install there are more issues than I had hoped I’d have to deal with. I am hoping to get some help fixing these problems, in order of importance.
Issues in order of importance:
Other drives are not detected by Dolphin but do show up in the YaST Partitioner as well as fdisk. I would like to have these drives auto mounted but they do no such thing even though they are correctly detected and auto-mounted without my interaction by other Linux distros I have used in recent years, such as KaOS Linux. They don’t even show up in my fstab. (Did I miss a checkbox or something during the guided install to have it setup other drives automatically?)
I have one SSD for my Linux installation, one SSD for my Windows 10 installation, one SSD for Steam games on Windows, and one SATA HDD for data storage, all of these are formatted as NTFS.
I have a dual 4K monitor setup with an AMD card (Radeon RX 480) and that was not working correctly after install. I’ve had to mirror the displays just to get anything done. (One monitor had an empty desktop save for a wallpaper, the cursor refused to move between monitors 90% of the time, and the monitors’ setup/configuration is lost on every reboot.)
Audio has heavy interference static all the time, I don’t have this problem in Windows nor did I have it in KaOS. It does work normally when I play something though, such as on YT.
The installer failed to add my Windows installation to the grub menu boot screen (like the other issues, this may have been an oversight on my part though).
As for the first problem, something interesting of note that may be telling as to what is going on is that even plugging in removable USB media does not prompt the popup via the removable device notifier in Plasma. Nothing is listed there, nor is there anything listed in Dolphin. I tried it on another USB port but it had the same result (nothing happens). Even though I could, I would rather not muck around with fstab. This should be something that is done automatically without user interaction, right? It has in other Linux distros so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be the same in OS Tumbleweed (but I have been very much out of the loop when it comes to OS).
Here are my fstab and fdisk outputs to start out:
Thank you very much for any help! I can’t wait to smooth out these issues since I look forward to using OS without problems again. It’s always been my favorite Linux distro.
You can add those to “fstab” with Yast partitioner. Set them to not mount at boot (unless you actually want to mount them at boot).
As for the first problem, something interesting of note that may be telling as to what is going on is that even plugging in removable USB media does not prompt the popup via the removable device notifier in Plasma.
That may depend on what’s on the USB media.
In my experience, they usually show up in device notifier. But sometimes, they don’t show. In particular, if the DVD installer was written to the USB device, then it does not show up in device notifier.
The installer failed to add my Windows installation to the grub menu boot screen (like the other issues, this may have been an oversight on my part though).
From your posted “fdisk” output, it looks as if you have Windows installed for traditional BIOS MBR booting, and you have Tumbleweed installed for UEFI booting. The two do not mix. That’s likely why there is no menu entry to boot Windows.
Did a fresh install on 20191106. Dolphin shows other devices and readily automounts them on clicking. They are not listed in fstab. Problem might be related to udisks:
erlangen:~ # journalctl -b | grep udisks
Nov 27 16:49:11 erlangen dbus-daemon[1054]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' unit='udisks2.service' requested by ':1.27' (uid=477 pid=2378 comm="/usr/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-RWKkSA")
Nov 27 16:49:11 erlangen udisksd[2385]: udisks daemon version 2.8.4 starting
Nov 27 16:49:11 erlangen udisksd[2385]: Can't load configuration file /etc/udisks2/udisks2.conf
Nov 27 16:49:12 erlangen udisksd[2385]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Nov 28 06:16:55 erlangen polkitd[1181]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.137 [/usr/bin/dolphin] (owned by unix-user:karl)
Nov 28 06:17:26 erlangen polkitd[1181]: **Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.137 [/usr/bin/dolphin] (owned by unix-user:karl)**
Nov 28 06:17:27 erlangen udisksd[2385]: Mounted /dev/sda2 at /run/media/karl/Leap-15.1 on behalf of uid 1000
erlangen:~ #
produce a screen full of RADEON(, or a screen full of AMDGPU(? It should be AMDGPU for your RX 480. If if has FBDEV or VESA there may be an installation holdover blocking competent X driver selection. What is output from:
cat /proc/cmdline
If the problem isn’t due to some kind of overflow due to using two 4K screens, you should be able to determine if the problem is in Plasma or elsewhere if you do as I do. I don’t use KDE’s GUI for screen configuration. I put an xrandr script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrd.d/. You can use arandr to create the required script for the layout you prefer.
Here’s what I have running ATM using the amdgpu driver that the RX 480 should be using:
> xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 2640, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+1200 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
DVI-I-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
2560x1440 59.95*+ 74.92
1920x1200 59.95*+
> inxi -V | head -n1
inxi 3.0.37-00 (2019-11-19)
> inxi -GxxS
System: Host: big31 Kernel: 5.2.14-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.17.3
tk: Qt 5.13.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: startx Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20191126
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6611
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: ati compositor: kwin_x11
resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 8500 Series (OLAND DRM 3.32.0 5.2.14-1-default LLVM 9.0.0) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.6
direct render: Yes
I solved all my issues (except the audio issue) by reinstalling. Though the install went fine the first time, I somewhat messed up my installed system by forgetting a few packages here & there. (Missed the udisks2 package, which is why drives weren’t showing up in Dolphin.) This time I didn’t mess with the patterns as far as locking/do not install and just did more careful selecting of my wanted/unwanted packages before installing.
Also, the dual monitor configuration was a bit messed up again, such as the cursor problem I described, but I figured out it was because the system improperly detected/assigned the monitor order. (It detected the left monitor as right and vice versa.)
I didn’t find any helpful information that pertained to my issue in particular yesterday but I did just a bit ago. Adding this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf fixed the problem for me:
snd-hda-intel power saving
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N
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