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February 2007

T60 Volume under openSUSE

Run KControl (Menu->Favorites->Configure Desktop (personal settings))
Select System Administration/IBM ThinkPad laptop
Says /dev/nvram not readable. To fix, edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
and change
KERNEL=="nvram", GROUP="kmem", MODE="600"
to
KERNEL=="nvram", GROUP="kmem", MODE="644"

Either reboot or as root chmod 666 /dev/nvram.
Restart KControl.

2007 02 19

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locate (slocate) on openSUSE

The Beagle indexing program doesn’t find things outside my home directory. I was looking for good old locate, but it’s not there. This SUSE Forums thread had the answer–it’s in the findutils-locate package.

2007 02 18

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