Mukul Singh wrote:
Hi,
Just thought I would let you know my experience of installing Opensuse on my new laptop...
...which is a ???
Installed Opensuse 11.1 (x86 32 bit) with KDE 4.1 and then updated to KDE 4.2 Factory via one click install. The fact that KDE 4.1 is not usable is a separate issue in itself.
That is kind of a pain. I went with 3.5x just to be safe. Have been running 24/7 with no issues on that laptop (the one I'm writing on has 10.3) since December.
As my laptop has a NVIDIA 9200 M card, I thought that installing the NVIDIA drivers "easy way", as indicated on opensuse website should be enough. Did that, but no luck. Anyway, I managed to do it via the "hard way". The drivers were installed successfully and things were looking up.
But you got it working?
The current problems on my system are :
1. Every time I boot my machine, the sound does not work unless I do alsasound restart.
Weird. I've installed SUSE and openSUSE on at least twenty machines and laptops now without ever having this occur. Again, it might be nice to know your model number and hardware.
2. Kpowersave does not display the battery status properly. -1% charged is what I get all the time. It also does not recognise whether the system is running on a battery or on mains.
Not running KDE 4, I can't comment on this. I know I've had openSUSE 10.x running on at least five laptops - Dell, HP, IBM - with no issues on the battery monitor.
3. The plasma widgets misbehave every now and then, but I can live with that.
Regards,
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