hey everyone

i have an issue where i have the my computer icon will not diplay any thing when i double click it. all it says is looking up cpu information. i have suse linux 10.3 64bit edition installed. would you happen to know what the problem is. i have done all the updates and still nothing. i tried 32bit edition suse 10.3 and it works ok but i wont see all my memory. i have 8gigs and it only sees 3.3gigs. also how do you enable smp support? thanks


anthony

Clicking on "My Computer" is the same as entering "sysinfo:/" in konqueror. Make sure the hal and dbus daemons are running. Another thing to check is that you don't have ACPI disabled in your kernel boot option. You don't want to see "acpi=off". Hal and the dbus daemons won't run then.

Try running "konqueror sysinfo:/" in the cli and see if any messages come up. Also run "dmesg" to see if there were any problems when you boot up. The main advantage to running the 64 bit version of the distro is having more memory space. If you have 8 GB of memory, you want to run the 64bit version.

ok i tried sysinfo:/ but still the same results. dmesg did not work for me either unless im doing it wrong. yes 64bit verions goes beyond the 4gb barrier i need it for video editing purposes. do you have any other clues to how i can see everything in my computer.

thanks

anthony

Did you check the other things I mentioned.

Look at "sudo /usr/sbin/rchal status" and "sudo /usr/sbin/rcdbus status". They should both be running.

Also, "less /boot/grub/menu.lst". Make sure you don't have "acpi=off" on the kernel line. Acpi is needed for dbusd to run.
Using Acpi=off will prevent automounting from working properly as well.

If you are running KDE, make sure you have the kio_sysinfo package installed.