[packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

[Carlos E. R.]

On 2023-01-19 06:30, Steven Swart wrote:
> Good day, Carlos, and Packmans!
> 
> Carlos, you told me something I didn't know!
> 
> There was no hibernate option available for my Tumbleweed machine. Upon
> investigation, it turned out that the problem was that I had never created
> a swap partition.
> 
> I installed both machines several years ago. At the time, I just accepted
> the default options for the partition table suggested by the OpenSUSE live
> stick installer. The only exception was that I created a 30 GB partition
> for /var/cache, because one of my friends had told me that OpenSUSE
> requires a large cache partition, the default option is not good enough.

Hum! It doesn't create a separate partition, it is all in the common 
root — which is necessary if you go with the default of using btrfs for 
having snapshots, which is a good feature.

> But the installer doesn't create a swap partition by default.

Not always, true. It may ask if you want hibernation, there is a tick 
somewhere, and then one is created. There are many subtle options or 
choices that have consequences :-)

> 
> I didn't want to resize any of my existing partitions on my boot drive,
> because I heard that was dangerous. But, I thought there would be no harm
> in deleting my cache partition and creating a new one,  after using some of
> that space for swap. 30 GB is probably a bit big for a cache anyway.

If your root is big, you do not need a cache at all :-)


> 
> So, this was my procedure.
> 
> I had already created a Leap 15.4 live stick last week. I used that to boot
> Tumbleweed from my root partition. I saw that when you do that, the whole
> /var partition is mounted on the live stick.
> 
> So, I deleted the /var/cache partition on my boot drive, created an 8 GB
> swap partition - that machine has 8 GB of RAM, and a smaller 22 GB cache
> partition. I used the YaST Partitioner to do that.

(depending on your usage, you may need more than 8 gig of swap later)

> 
> (As an added bonus, I also saw that I had an unused and unmounted 40 GB
> partition!)
> 
> I shut down and rebooted from my boot drive, and then, as if by magic, the
> KDE Power / Session menu suddenly contained Sleep and Hibernate options. I
> tested the Hibernate option, and it works perfectly!

Nice :-)


> I am going to do the same to the Leap machine today.
> 
> Thank you very much, Carlos, this is going to save me a lot of pain, for
> more reasons than just doing builds! What I was previously doing was
> shutting down two machines every time we were scheduled for a power cut,
> and then restarting them both when the power cane back on. Now I can just
> hibernate them both!


Normally packman list is not used for this kind of help, but I figured 
you were doing that, and that hibernate could help :-)

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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