VMWare kernel module updater at startup

after accomplishing this (http://hilaltarakci.blogspot.com/2011/07/vmware-installation-error-unknown.html), this time kernel module updater dialog comes at startup (with an empty location field).

according to http://tr.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux, i installed those with yast:

gcc
gcc-c++
kernel-source
kernel syms
make


btw, learning suse version: more /etc/SuSE-release

This time there was a conflict between wanted kernel(2.6.31.14-0.4) and my kernel(2.6.31.14.-0.8). (kernel version mismatch) So, i downgraded the kernel to 2.6.31.14-0.4 and problem solved..

sound problem in opensuse 11.2 for intel ich9

in my case, the problem is there is no sound..

and fortunately, the solution was simple.. i just run the following command as root:
cp /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

btw, prior to executing the command, there was no /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf file..

also, i still can not get sound from the earphones at the front side of the tower, i use the one at the back..

some links:
http://medwinz.blogsome.com/2009/11/30/workaround-for-soundproblem-in-opensuse-112-for-intel-ich9/
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroubleshooting

smartctl

yesterday, unfortunately my computer crashed due to a raid failure (http://www.datarecovery.org/raid-failure.html) i still do not know why.. we assumed that one of the hard disks is problematic and took it off .
in order to figure out if there is a problem on hard disks, we have to test bothof them, before installing open suse on the machine again.. we used smartctl to do that.
an article on smart : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
some commands:

smartctl -t long /dev/sda : starts long test on specified disk
smartctl -t short /dev/sda : starts short test on specified disk
smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda : reports about all tests carried out on specified disk

btw, in my computer, starting a new test caused the previously started test on the same disk to abort..

svn troubleshooting: Can't open file ...\.svn\tmp\text-base\catalog.xml.svn-base':

When a Netbeans composite application is developped in linux (specifically open suse) environment, 2 catalog files are created under project directory: catalog.xml and Catalog.xml files. Linux file system is case sensitive, so this is not a problem here.. Then the project is comitted to svn. The situation is ok till here. However, when this project is checked out on a windows environment(windows xp specifically), the following error is given since windows file system is case insensitive:

Can't open file 'C:\htarakci\projects\.svn\tmp\text-base\catalog.xml.svn-base':

here is a related post: http://publicobject.com/2007/04/subversion-and-case-insensitive_15.html

So, note to myself, be careful about this!